US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Feb. 4 for "Method and device for variable precision computing" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,055, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Method and device for variable precision computing" was invented by Riccardo Alidori (Grenoble, France) and Andrea Bocco (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a floating-point computation circuit comprising: an internal memory (104, 114) storing one or more floating-point values in a first format; status registers (124) defining a plurality of floating-point number format types associated with corresponding identifiers, each format type indicating at least a maximum size (BIS, MBB...