US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Compute in memory three-dimensional non-volatile NAND memory for neural networks with weight and input level expansions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,040, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Compute in memory three-dimensional non-volatile NAND memory for neural networks with weight and input level expansions" was invented by Yanli Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory device for performing compute in memory operations for a neural network uses a three dimensional NAND architecture. Multi-bit weight values are stored encoded as sets of threshold voltages for sets of memory cells. A weight value is stored in multiple memory cells on the same word line and connected between a bit line and a source l...