ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,227, issued on July 14, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Memristive cellular neural network" was invented by Qiangfei Xia (Amherst, Mass.), Vigneshwar Ravichandran (N. Chelmsford, Mass.) and Tina Maurer (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a sensor, a plurality of cells, and a processor. The sensor includes a plurality of transducers arranged on a planar surface and includes a first transducer and a second transducer. The first transducer is configured to produce an analog output signal corresponding to a detected input signal. The cells are arranged in a network and...