ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,076, 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 Gyeonggi-do, 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, first to Lth additional adders, 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 first to Lth additional adders are configured to generate and output first to Mth MAC result dat...