US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 5 for "BFLOAT16 scale and/or reduce instructions" (Israeli, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,927, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"BFLOAT16 scale and/or reduce instructions" was invented by Menachem Adelman (Haifa, Israel), Alexander Heinecke (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Zeev Sperber (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Amit Gradstein (Binyamina, Israel), Mark Charney (Lexington, Mass.), Evangelos Georganas (San Mateo, Calif.), Dhiraj Kalamkar (Bangalore, India), Christopher Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Cristina Anderson (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for scale and reduction of BF16 data elements are described. An exemplary instruction i...