ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,577, issued on March 17, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis) and Oregon State University (Corvallis, Ore.).
"Scaling-friendly, analog correlators using charge-based margin propagation" was invented by Aravind Nagulu (St. Louis), Shantanu Chakrabartty (St. Louis) and Arun Natarajan (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-multiply-accumulate (non-MAC) charge-based analog correlator system including a sampler circuit block, an operand generation circuit block, and a margin propagation (MP) correlation computation circuit block is disclosed. The sampler circuit block is configured to sample a plurality of input ana...