ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,952, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Encode inputs to reduce energy usages in analog computation acceleration" was invented by Febin Sunny (Folsom, Calif.), Saideep Tiku (Folsom, Calif.), Shashank Bangalore Lakshman (Folsom, Calif.) and Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device having: memory cells configured to store a set of first parameters as an input for an operation of multiplication and accumulation; digital to analog converters; an analog section of the operation of multiplication and accumulation; analog to digital converters; and a controller configured ...