ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,646, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ferroelectric in-memory computing" was invented by Fabia Farlin Athena (Atlanta), Takashi Ando (Eastchester, N.Y.), Paul Michael Solomon (Westchester, N.Y.), Nanbo Gong (White Plains, N.Y.) and Guy M. Cohen (Westchester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product for training a machine learning model. A processor executes program instructions stored on a computer readable media to perform a forward pass read by applying a bias input voltage to a gate of a first resistive processing unit (RPU) configured for infrequent wr...