US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for performing instructions to convert to 16-bit floating-point format" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,365, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing instructions to convert to 16-bit floating-point format" was invented by Alexander F. Heinecke (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Mark J. Charney (Lexington, Mass.), Raanan Sade (Portland, Ore.), Menachem Adelman (Modi'in, Israel), Zeev Sperber (Zichron Yackov, Israel), Amit Gradstein (Binyamina, Israel) and Simon Rubanovich (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to convert to 16-bit floating-point format. In one ex...