US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Non-volatile cross-bar memory with on-chip processing circuitry" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,195, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Non-volatile cross-bar memory with on-chip processing circuitry" was invented by Wen Ma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Minghai Qin (San Jose, Calif.), Won Ho Choi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pi-Feng Chiu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary methods and apparatus are disclosed that implement super-sparse image/video compression by storing image dictionary elements within a cross-bar resistive random access memory (ReRAM) array (or other suitable cross-bar NVM array). In illustrative examples, ...