ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,228, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Programmable in-memory computing accelerator for low-precision deep neural network inference" was invented by Jae-sun Seo (Tempe, Ariz.), Bo Zhang (New York), Mingoo Seok (New York) and Shihui Yin (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable in-memory computing (IMC) accelerator for low-precision deep neural network inference, also referred to as PIMCA, is provided. Embodiments of the PIMCA integrate a large number of capacit...