US Patent Issued to SK hynix on May 12 for "Memory device for performing convolution operation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,117, issued on May 12, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory device for performing convolution operation" was invented by Young Jae Jin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ki Young Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sang Eun Je (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device performs a convolution operation. The memory device includes first to N-th processing elements (PEs), a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a first shift adder, and a first accumulator. The first to N-th PEs, where N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2, are respectively associated with at least one weigh...