ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,040, issued on May 26, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device including product-sum operation circuit and memory device, electronic component, and electronic device" was invented by Takeshi Aoki (Ebina, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kurokawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Munehiro Kozuma (Atsugi, Japan) and Takuro Kanemura (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device which can efficiently perform reading of a weight coefficient and a product-sum operation is provided. The semiconductor device includes a product-sum operation circuit and a memory device. The product-sum operat...