ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,762, issued on March 11, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Processing-in-memory (PIM) devices" was invented by Choung Ki Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing-in-memory device includes a data storage region and an arithmetic circuit. The data storage region includes a first memory bank in which first data is divided into a first portion and a second portion and stored, and a second memory bank in which second data is divided into a first portion and a second portion and stored. The arithmetic circuit performs multiplication/accumulation operations on the first data and the se...