ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,826, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for calculating a MAC operation in a 1SIR-type RRAM memory" was invented by Tifenn Hirtzlin (Grenoble, France), Elisa Vianello (Grenoble, France), Gabriel Molas (Grenoble, France) and Joel Minguet Lopez (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating a MAC operation is performed by a memory, in particular in the neuromorphic calculation field. It allows performing the scalar product between an activation vector whose elements are binary with a vector of synaptic coefficients, quantised over M...