US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 23 for "Multiplication and accumulation (MAC) operator and processing-in-memory (PIM) device including the mac operator" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,952, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Multiplication and accumulation (MAC) operator and processing-in-memory (PIM) device including the mac operator" was invented by Choung Ki Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplying-and-accumulating (MAC) operator for performing a MAC arithmetic operation of a weight matrix employing "MxN"-number of weight sub-matrixes as elements and a vector matrix employing "N"-number of vector sub-matrixes as elements (where "M" and "N" are natural numbers which are equal to or greater than two). The "MxN"-number of weight sub-matrixes ...