ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,009, issued on March 17, was assigned to PEKING UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Compute-in-memory circuit based on charge redistribution, and control method thereof" was invented by Yimao Cai (Beijing), Zongwei Wang (Beijing), Yunfan Yang (Beijing) and Ru Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute-in-memory circuit based on charge redistribution includes a memory array, multiple-functional output units (MFUs), multiplexers (MUXs), and a word line (WL) driver. The memory array includes memory cell rows and memory cell columns. Every two adjacent memory cells form a memory cell pair in sequence, and every two adjacent memory cell ...