ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,982, issued on July 15, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Memory architecture supporting both conventional memory access mode and digital in-memory computation processing mode" was invented by Harsh Rawat (Haryana, India), Nitin Chawla (Noida, India), Promod Kumar (Greater Noida, India), Kedar Janardan Dhori (Ghaziabad, India) and Manuj Ayodhyawasi (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory array of a circuit includes sub-arrays with memory cells arranged in a row-column matrix where each row includes a word line and each sub-array column includes a local bit line. A control circuit support...