ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,913, issued on July 28, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Reduced logic gate accumulators" was invented by Micky R. Harris (Lompoc, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory having memory elements configured to store bits of a count value. The apparatus also includes sense amplifiers configured to read the bits of the count value from the memory elements and write amplifiers configured to write the bits of the count value to the memory elements. The apparatus further includes at least one logic gate configured to generate at least one feedback bit based on the count value stored in the memory ...