ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,890, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Word line driver for vector-by-matrix multiplication array" was invented by Hieu Van Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Stanley Hong (San Jose, Calif.), Anh Ly (San Jose, Calif.), Thuan Vu (San Jose, Calif.), Hien Pham (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam), Kha Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam) and Han Tran (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a system comprises a vector-by-matrix multiplication array comprising non-volatile memory cells organized into rows and columns; a plurality of word lines coupled respectively to rows of the vector-...