US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on Jan. 28 for "Signed and binary weighted computation for an in-memory computation system" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,582, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Signed and binary weighted computation for an in-memory computation system" was invented by Marco Pasotti (Travaco' Siccomario, Italy), Marcella Carissimi (Bergamo, Italy), Alessio Antolini (Bologna, Italy), Eleonora Franchi Scarselli (Bologna, Italy), Antonio Gnudi (Bologna, Italy) and Andrea Lico (Polia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-memory computation (IMC) circuit includes a memory array formed by memory cells arranged in row-by-column matrix. Computational weights for an IMC operation are stored in the memory cells. Each colu...