ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,602, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Performing processing-in-memory operations related to spiking events, and related methods, systems and devices" was invented by Dmitri Yudanov (Cordova, Calif.), Sean S. Eilert (Penryn, Calif.), Hernan A. Castro (Shingle Springs, Calif.) and Ameen D. Akel (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for in- or near-memory processing are described. Spiking events in a spiking neural network may be processed via a memory system. A memory system may store a group of destination neurons, and at each time interval ...