US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Floating-point division circuitry with subnormal support" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,202, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Floating-point division circuitry with subnormal support" was invented by Liang-Kai Wang (Austin, Texas), Ian R. Ollmann (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Anthony Y. Tai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to circuitry for floating-point division. In some embodiments, the circuitry is configured to generate a subnormal result for a division operation that divides a numerator by a denominator. The circuitry may include floating-point circuitry configured to perform a reciprocal operation to determine a normalized mantissa valu...