ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,688, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cross-point array with matched filters for noise reduction" was invented by Guy M. Cohen (Westchester, N.Y.), Takashi Ando (Eastchester, N.Y.) and Nanbo Gong (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-point array includes an array of Resistive Processing Unit (RPU) devices having rows and columns interconnected at cross-points, wherein the RPU devices receive a finite duration input voltage on the rows and output a current on the columns. An input-signal matched filter is coupled to each of the columns to reduce noise in the...