ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,467, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device performing a multiplication and accumulation operation" was invented by Kyunghyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seonghwan Cho (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a cell array including a plurality of memory cells connected between a first bit line and a source line; a computation control circuit configured to control a first bit line current between the first bit line and the source line during a ...