ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,778, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"PIM-based computing device for accelerating join operation" was invented by Youngsok Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Chaemin Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Hanjun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing-in-memory (PIM)-based computing device includes a main memory configured to store first and second data sets, a PIM module configured as an in-line memory module including a memory processor, a working memory, and a memory bank, the memory processor being connected to the ...