ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,610, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Tohoku University (Miyagi, Japan).
"Computation processing device" was invented by Osamu Nomura (Miyagi, Japan), Tetsuo Endoh (Miyagi, Japan), Ko Yoshikawa (Miyagi, Japan) and Tao Li (Miyagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computation processing device includes: a memory unit that retains computation data for weighting computation, and at least a part of which is a non-volatile storage region; a computation circuit unit that performs computation processing including the weighting computation by using a part or all of the computation data input from the memory unit; and a power gate unit...