US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 7 for "Hybrid compute-in-memory" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,257, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid compute-in-memory" was invented by Mustafa Keskin (San Diego) and Francois Ibrahim Atallah (Raleigh, 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 of the filter."

The patent was filed on March 15, 2022, under Application No. 17...