US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 26 for "Semiconductor memory device employing processing in memory (PIM) and method of operating the semiconductor memory device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,037, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device employing processing in memory (PIM) and method of operating the semiconductor memory device" was invented by Shinhaeng Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seongil O (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory bank groups configured to be accessed in parallel; an internal memory bus configured to receive external data from outside the plurality of memory bank groups; and a first computation circuit configured to receive internal data from a first m...