ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,893, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Conductance modulation in computational memory" was invented by Ghazi Sarwat Syed (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Benedikt Kersting (Ludinghausen, Germany) and Abu Sebastian (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for modulating conductance of a plurality of unit cells are described. A controller can determine a plurality of conductance values for a plurality of unit cells arranged in a crossbar arrangement. The plurality of unit cells can include non-volatile memory devices. The plurality of conductance values can...