US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Hybrid machine learning architecture with neural processing unit and compute-in-memory processing elements" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,468, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid machine learning architecture with neural processing unit and compute-in-memory processing elements" was invented by Mustafa Badaroglu (Leuven, Belgium), Zhongze Wang (San Diego) and Titash Rakshit (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for performing machine learning tasks, and in particular, a hybrid architecture that includes both neural processing unit (NPU) and compute-in-memory (CIM) elements. One example neural-network-processing circuit generally includes a plurality of CIM processing elements (PEs), a plurality of neural p...