ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,396, issued on March 18, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Product-sum calculation unit, neuromorphic device, and product-sum calculation method" was invented by Tatsuo Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiply-accumulate calculation device includes: a plurality of first multiple calculation elements configured to generate first output signals by multiplying a first input signal corresponding to an input value by a weight and output the first output signals; and an accumulate calculation unit configured to calculate a sum of the first output signals output from the plurality of first multiple calculation elements in...