ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,946, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Memory computation method" was invented by Yen-Huei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Jen Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing an in-memory computation includes storing a first subset of data in a first segment of a first memory array and a second subset of the data in a second segment of the first memory array, latching a first data bit from a first column of memory cells in the first segment of the first memory...