Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Floating-Point Execution Circuitry For Subset Of Binary Logarithm Input Range' Filed by Apple Inc.

MUMBAI, India, March 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517013569 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Feb. 17, for 'floating-point execution circuitry for subset of binary logarithm input range.'

Inventor(s) include Wang, Liang-Kai; Ollmann, Ian R; and Tai, Anthony Y.

The application for the patent was published on March 7, under issue no. 10/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Techniques are disclosed relating to polynomial approximation of the base-2 logarithm. In some embodiments, floating-point circuitry is configured to perform an approximation of a base-2 logarithm operation and provide a fixed unit of least precision (ULP) error over a range o...