US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on March 24 for "In-memory computation device for performing a signed MAC operation" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,637, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"In-memory computation device for performing a signed MAC operation" was invented by Marcella Carissimi (Treviolo, Italy), Marco Pasotti (Travaco' Siccomario, Italy) and Riccardo Zurla (Binasco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-memory computation device performs a multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operation. A computation array includes groups of memory cells coupled to a bitline, each group storing a computational weight and having a positive cell flowing a positive-cell current and a negative cell flowing a negative-cell current which ar...