ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,976, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Hybrid compute-in-memory" was invented by Francois Ibrahim Atallah (Raleigh, N.C.), Hoan Huu Nguyen (Cary, N.C.), Colin Beaton Verrilli (Apex, N.C.) and Natarajan Vaidhyanathan (Carrboro, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute-in-memory array is provided that implements a filter for a layer in a neural network. The filter multiplies a plurality of activation bits by a plurality of filter weight bits for each channel in a plurality of channels through a charge accumulation from a plurality of capacitors. The accumulated charge is digitized to provide the output...