ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,797, issued on April 1, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Apparatus and method for processing floating-point numbers" was invented by Sam Elliott (London), Jonas Olof Gunnar Kallen (Hisings Backa, Sweden) and Casper Van Benthem (Abbots Langley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adder circuits and associated methods for processing a set of at least three floating-point numbers to be added together include identifying, from among the at least three numbers, at least two numbers that have the same sign-that is, at least two numbers that are both positive or both negative. The ident...