ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,656, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Daegu, South Korea).

"Near memory device, memory device, and electronic device" was invented by Joonho Kong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeongmin Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device including a near-memory device and a far-memory device, wherein the far-memory device stores compressed embedding vectors, the near-memory device including: a buffer to receive a request for pooling an embedding vector and output a hit or miss signal in...