ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,303, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Circuit and method for optimization with digital adder, analog adder, and multiplier" was invented by Leibin Ni (Shenzhen, China), Zhihang Wu (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Wei Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Song Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of circuits, multiplier-adders, and circuit optimization methods are described. One example circuit includes a digital addition circuit and an analog addition circuit. The digital addition circuit is configured to perform bitwise digital accumulation on bits that belong to a first ...