ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,972, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Avoiding partition collisions in stochastic associative memory for data stored across multiple partitions" was invented by Sourabh Dongaonkar (Portland, Ore.), Jawad B. Khan (Portland, Ore.), Chetan Chauhan (Folsom, Calif.), Dipanjan Sengupta (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mariano Tepper (Portland, Ore.) and Theodore Willke (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Binary sparse encoding of data can be used to reduce an amount of data read from the stochastic associative memory while processing a query. Read performance of the stochastic associated memory is optimiz...