ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,421, issued on July 7, was assigned to Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Artificial intelligence memory architecture systems and methods" was invented by Satheesh Chellappan (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Raghunandan Chaware (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing a neural network model to an artificial intelligence (AI) field programmable gate array (FPGA) are provided. A flash memory stores a neural network model. A tunnel is created between a flash memory and a random access memory (RAM) over a multi-line serial peripheral interface (QSPI) interface. Using the tunnel, the RAM...