ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,126, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Intelligent image sensor stack" was invented by Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.) and Amit Gattani (Granite Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device in a single integrated circuit package, having an image sensor, memory, and an inference engine configured to convert images generated by the image sensor into inference results for transmitting to a host system for further analysis and/or generate a more efficient image stream provided in the camera interface. The intelligence provided by the inference engine can reduce or eliminate...