ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,374, issued on June 2, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Method and device for the conception of a computational memory circuit" was invented by Jean-Philippe Noel (Grenoble Cedex, France), Valentin Egloff (Grenoble Cedex, France), Bastien Giraud (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Antoine Philippe (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of circuit conception of a computational memory circuit including a memory having memory cells, the method including: receiving an indication of the memory storage size and an indication of an instruction frequency of the instruct...