ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,142, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Imaging device utilizing a neural network" was invented by Yusuke Koumura (Kanagawa, Japan), Koki Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayana Kimotsuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Fumiya Nagashima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system with high processing speed and low power consumption is provided. The system includes an imaging device and an arithmetic circuit. The imaging device includes an imaging portion, a first memory portion, and an arithmetic portion, and the arithmetic circuit includes a second memory portion. The imaging ...