US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 6 for "Binary-weighted capacitor charge-sharing for multiplication" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,713, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Binary-weighted capacitor charge-sharing for multiplication" was invented by Yu-Lin Chao (Portland, Ore.), Clifford Lu Ong (Portland, Ore.), Dmitri E. Nikonov (Beaverton, Ore.), Ian A. Young (Portland, Ore.) and Eric A. Karl (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog multiplication circuit includes switched capacitors to multiply digital operands in an analog representation and output a digital result with an analog-to-digital convertor. The capacitors are arranged with a capacitance according to the respective value of the digital bit inputs. To ...