ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,377, issued on June 30, was assigned to Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adjustable programming circuit for neural network" was invented by Hieu Van Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Thuan Vu (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen Trinh (San Jose, Calif.), Stanley Hong (San Jose, Calif.) and Anh Ly (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of programming circuits and methods are provided. In one example, an adjustable programming circuit comprises a first adjustable voltage divider; a second adjustable voltage divider; a first operational amplifier, wherein an output terminal of the first operational amplifier provide...