US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Dec. 30 for "Memory device and method for computing-in-memory (CIM)" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,102, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device and method for computing-in-memory (CIM)" was invented by Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Haruki Mori (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei-Chang Zhao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device has a memory array including a memory segment to store weight data, a weight buffer coupled to the memory segment and configured to hold new weight data to be updated in the memory segment, a logic circuit, and a computation circuit coupled to an output of the logic circuit. The logic circuit further has a fir...