US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Configurable function approximation based on hardware selection of mapping table content" (California, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,353, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Configurable function approximation based on hardware selection of mapping table content" was invented by Ron Diamant (Albany, Calif.), Sundeep Amirineni (Austin, Texas), Mohammad El-Shabani (Seattle) and Kenneth Wayne Patton (Bee Cave, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing hardware approximation of functions are provided. In one example, a system comprises a controller, a plurality of multiplexors, configurable arithmetic circuits, and a mapping table that stores a set of function parameters. According to a mode of operatio...