ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,039, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method with multiply-accumulate operation" was invented by Hyungwoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Joon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seok Ju Yun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Seungchul Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiply-accumulate (MAC) computation circuit includes: a bit-cell array configured to generate an analog output corresponding to a MAC operation result of an input signal; a first analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) circuit configured to determine an upper part of a digital output co...