ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,077, issued on Sept. 16, 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 first to Lth multiplication/accumulation (MAC) operators, first to Lth memory banks, and a plurality of data input/output (I/O) circuits. The first to Lth MAC operators include first to Lth left MAC operators and first to Lth right MAC operators. The plurality of data I/O circuits include left data I/O circuits and right data I/O circuits. A Uth MAC operator among the first to Lth MAC ope...