ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,031, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Iterative estimation hardware" was invented by Thomas Rose (Watford, Great Britain), Max Freiburghaus (London) and Robert McKemey (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function estimation hardware logic unit may be implemented as part of an execution pipeline in a processor. The function estimation hardware logic unit is arranged to calculate, in hardware logic, an improved estimate of a function of an input value, d, where the function is given by 1 / d i. The hardware logic comprises a plurality of multi...