ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,322, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for modifying impedances in time-based vector-matrix multiplication circuits" was invented by Mohammad Mahmoodi (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Zahra Fahimi (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a memory array including non-volatile memory cells configured to store weights of an artificial neural network, a bit line coupled to a plurality of the non-volatile memory cells, and an interface circuit coupled to the bit line, the interface c...