Freescale Assigned Patent

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,189,408) developed by Ravi Gupta, David R. Bearden, Austin, TX, and Ravindraraj Ramaraju, Round Rock, TX, for a "memory device having shifting capability and method thereof."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An array of memory bit cells are operable to provide a memory device having data shifting capability, so that data can be flexibly stored and retrieved from the memory device in both parallel and serial fashions. The memory array can thus be used for conventional memory storage operations, and also for operations, such as matrix operations, that provide for the alteration of the arrangement of stored data elements."

The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2009 (12/620,314).