US Patent Issued to Wayne State University on Dec. 23 for "Energy efficient digital to time converter (DTC) for edge computing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,721, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Energy efficient digital to time converter (DTC) for edge computing" was invented by Hamza Al-Maharmeh (Westland, Mich.), Mohammad Alhawari (Dearborn, Mich.), Nabil Sarhan (Dearborn Heights, Mich.) and Mohammed Ismail Elnaggar (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatially unrolled time domain (TD) architecture that includes an input and weight register having i inputs and j weights, where i corresponds with a number of delay lines for i neurons, and j corresponds with a number of processing elements (PEs) for each delay line of the i delay lines....