US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on May 13 for "Multiple-input floating-point processing with mantissa bit extension" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,412, issued on May 13, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Multiple-input floating-point processing with mantissa bit extension" was invented by Thomas Ferrere (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for processing a set of 'k' floating point numbers to perform addition and/or subtraction is disclosed. Each floating-point number comprises a mantissa (mi) and an exponent (ei). The method comprises receiving the set of 'k' floating point numbers in a first format, each floating-point number in the first format comprising a mantissa (mi) with a bit-lengt...