US Patent Issued to SK hynix on March 18 for "Multiplication-and-accumulation circuits and processing-in-memory devices having the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,284, issued on March 18, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Multiplication-and-accumulation circuits and processing-in-memory devices having the same" was invented by Choung Ki Song (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplication-and-accumulation (MAC) circuit includes a MAC operator and a data input circuit. The MAC operator selectively performs a MAC arithmetic operation of weight data and vector data or an element-wise multiplication (EWM) arithmetic operation of the weight data and constant data. The data input circuit provides the MAC operator with the weight data and the vector dat...