US Patent Issued to Silicon Storage Technology on June 30 for "Vector-by-matrix-multiplication array utilizing analog outputs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,228, issued on June 30, was assigned to Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vector-by-matrix-multiplication array utilizing analog outputs" was invented by Hieu Van Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Thuan Vu (San Jose, Calif.), Stanley Hong (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen Trinh (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark Reiten (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Numerous examples are disclosed of an artificial neural network that comprises vector-by-matrix multiplication arrays utilizing analog outputs. In one example, a system comprises a vector by matrix multiplication array comprising a plurality of non-volatile memory cells arrang...