G06F 15/7821
Tightly coupled to memory
Official title: {Tightly coupled to memory, e.g. computational memory, smart memory, processor in memory}
G06F15/7821 (Tightly coupled to memory) appears on 521 US grants and 637 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 521
- Published applications
- 637
- Assignees
- 143
- Inventors
- 920
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Processing-in-memory(PIM) device29 Sep 2026US 12,749,513 B2SK hynix Inc.
- Atomic execution of processing-in-memory operations22 Sep 2026US 12,743,205 B2Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Configurable compute-in-memory circuit and method25 Aug 2026US 12,717,487 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Hybrid machine learning architecture with neural processing unit and compute-in-memory processing elements11 Aug 2026US 12,705,468 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Multi-core system-on-chip14 Jul 2026US 12,681,892 B2Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Processor-in-memory (pim) command truth table definition8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310628 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- System and method for implementing quires using a memory controller1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299945 A1Tactical Computing Laboratories, LLC
- High parallelism dpim1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300217 A1
- 3d processor1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300219 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Memory-mapped compact computing array24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290446 A1Synthara AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Distributed processing memory chip with embedded logic having both data memory and broadcast memory557US 5,751,987 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1998
- Method and apparatus for using smart memories in computing492US 6,807,614 B22004
- Apparatus and method for a memory unit with a processor integrated therein486US 5,678,021 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1997
- Algorithm mapping, specialized instructions and architecture features for smart memory computing432US 7,546,438 B22009
- Active memory data compression system and method418US 9,015,390 B2Micron Technology, Inc. · 2015