ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,636, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems and methods of programming for in-memory processing" was invented by Marie Mai Nguyen (Pittsburgh), Tong Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Yangwook Kang (San Jose, Calif.), Rekha Pitchumani (Oak Hill, Va.) and Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for systems and methods of programming processes in processing in memory (PIM) systems. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include enabling, via a processor, a PIM manager for processing of PIM instructions,...