US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 1 for "Reconfigurable FinFET-based artificial neuron and synapse devices" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,016, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable FinFET-based artificial neuron and synapse devices" was invented by Milan Pesic (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device that implements artificial neurons and synapses together on the semiconductor device includes a plurality of fins formed on the semiconductor device, and a plurality of gates formed around the plurality of fins to form a plurality of fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs). The plurality of FinFETs may form one or more artificial synapses and one or more artificial neurons. Each of the one or mo...