ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,040, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory circuit with multiply-accumulate (MAC) circuit and method of operating the same" was invented by Je-Ming Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Haruki Mori (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory circuit includes a memory cell array configured to store a set of stored data, a multiply-accumulate (MAC) circuit and an input output (IO) circuit. The set of stored data is a first set of weight signals or a set of inverted weight signals. The MAC circuit is configured to generate a fi...