ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,285, issued on March 18, 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 (PIM) device includes memory banks, first and second global buffers, multiplying-and-accumulating (MAC) operators, and output circuits. Each memory bank includes a left memory bank providing left weigh data and a right memory bank providing right weigh data. The first global buffer provides left vector data, and the second global buffer provides right vector data. Each MAC operator includes a left MAC operator...