ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,951, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Dynamic analog content addressable memory" was invented by Giacomo Pedretti (San Francisco), Luca Buonanno (Milpitas, Calif.) and James Ignowski (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic analog content addressable memory (CAM) cell uses volatile memory to store a range. The dynamic analog CAM cell includes an upper bound circuit and a lower bound circuit. The upper bound circuit includes a first pull-down transistor and a first controlled current generator. The first controlled current generator is configured to sto...