US Patent Issued to New Jersey Institute of Technology, NUtech Ventures on July 28 for "Non-volatile processing-in-sensor accelerator for imaging systems" (New Jersey, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,983, issued on July 28, was assigned to New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, N.J.) and NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Non-volatile processing-in-sensor accelerator for imaging systems" was invented by Shaahin Angizi (Newark, N.J.) and Arman Roohi (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a Processing-In-Sensor Accelerator (PISA) that provides a flexible, energy-efficient, and high-performance solution for real-time and smart image processing in AI devices. PISA implements a coarse-grained convolution operation in Binarized-Weight Neural Networks (BWNNs) leveraging a novel compute-pixel with non-volatile wei...