ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,177, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Memory device and method for computing-in- memory (CIM)" was invented by Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Haruki Mori (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei-Chang Zhao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory array of a plurality of memory cells, and first and second Multiply Accumulate (MAC) circuits. The memory cells include first and second memory cell groups. The first memory cell group includes first rows of memory cells coupled to first bit lines. The second memory cell group includes second ...