ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,937, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Processing in memory registers" was invented by Dmitri Yudanov (Sacramento, Calif.), James B. Johnson (Boise, Idaho), Peter L. Brown (Eagle, Idaho) and Glen E. Hush (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing can occur in registers of a memory sub-system. A first plurality of registers coupled to the plurality of sense amplifiers can store the first plurality of bits received from the plurality of sense amplifiers. Processing circuitry coupled to the first plurality of registers can receive the first plurality of bits from the first plurality ...