ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,679, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method of scanning an image using non-volatile memory array neural network classifier" was invented by Farnood Merrikh Bayat (Goleta, Calif.), Xinjie Guo (Goleta, Calif.), Dmitri Strukov (Goleta, Calif.), Nhan Do (Saratoga, Calif.), Hieu Van Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Vipin Tiwari (Dublin, Calif.) and Mark Reiten (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of scanning NxN pixels using a vector-by-matrix multiplication array by (a) associating a filter of MxM pixels adjacent first vertical and horizontal edges, (b) providing values for ...