US Patent Issued to Altera on Oct. 28 for "Floating-point decomposition circuitry with dynamic precision" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,722, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Floating-point decomposition circuitry with dynamic precision" was invented by Roberto DiCecco (Toronto), Joshua Fender (East York, Canada) and Shane O'Connell (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry for decomposing block floating-point numbers into lower precision floating-point numbers is provided. The circuitry may include a high precision storage circuit configured to provide high precision floating-point numbers, input selectors configured to receive the high precision floating-point numbers from the high precision storage circuit and to generate...