ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,842, issued on May 27, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Matrix-vector multiplication using SOT-based non-volatile memory cells" was invented by Thao A. Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Ho (Redwood City, Calif.), Zhigang Bai (Fremont, Calif.), Xiaoyong Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Zhanjie Li (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yongchul Ahn (San Jose, Calif.), Hongquan Jiang (San Jose, Calif.) and Quang Le (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes an array including n rows and m columns of nodes, each row of nodes coupled to one of n first conductive lines, each column ...