ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,642, issued on April 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Processing-in-memory devices" was invented by Hae Rang Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing-in-memory device includes a memory circuit including a memory circuit including a plurality of memory cells, the memory circuit configured to designate the plurality of memory cells by a plurality of memory addresses, wherein the plurality of memory addresses are allocated to a memory address space in a memory mode, a register configured to be accessed based on a temporary memory address allocated among the plurality of memory a...