ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,847, issued on July 8, was assigned to SK hynix Inc (Icheon, South Korea) and Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device capable of performing in-memory processing" was invented by Seonwook Kim (Namyangju, South Korea), Wonjun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Changhyun Kim (Seongnam, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a memory cell array, an address input circuit, a command input circuit, a data Input/Output (IO) circuit, a processing control circuit, a processing circuit, and a switch circuit. The processing control circuit includes a register arra...