US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Jan. 27 for "Device and method for in-memory computing" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,034, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Device and method for in-memory computing" was invented by Leonardo Valencia Rissetto (Montbonnot, France), Alin Razafindraibe (Saint Martin d'Heres, France), Xavier Lecoq (Voiron, France) and Christophe Forel (Saint-Egreve, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes memory cells wherein each memory cell has a control input that receives a pulse-width modulated control voltage and an output that delivers a current depending on the control voltage and on a weight programmed in the memory cell. A node receives, during a first time peri...