US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 6 for "3D NOR flash based in-memory computing" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,765, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"3D NOR flash based in-memory computing" was invented by Chun-Hsiung Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ken-Hui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Chi Yang (Changhua, Taiwan) and Tung-Yu Li (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compute-in-memory CIM operations using signed bits produce signed outputs. A circuit for CIM operations comprises an array of memory cells arranged in columns and rows, memory cells in columns connected to corresponding bit lines, and memory cells in rows connected to corresponding word lines. The array is programmable to store ...