US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 19 for "Memory device and method with processing-in-memory block" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,252, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device and method with processing-in-memory block" was invented by Sunjung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yoonah Paik (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghoon Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a first scalar register file storing a first input fragment, a second scalar register file storing a second input fragment, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to perform, using the ALU, a first operation between the first input fragment and a first we...