US Patent Issued to Arm on Sept. 23 for "Significand shifting in floating point processing operations" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,097, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Significand shifting in floating point processing operations" was invented by Anisha Saini (Austin, Texas), Mairin Imro Kroes (Letchworth Garden City, Great Britain), Thomas Elmer (Austin, Texas) and Neil Burgess (Cardiff, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, computer readable media, and systems are disclosed in which a floating point processing instruction is decoded to generate control signals to trigger a floating point processing operation. In response to the control signals, the floating point processing operation is per...