ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,239, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing 8-bit floating-point vector dot product instructions" was invented by Alexander Heinecke (San Jose, Calif.), Menachem Adelman (Modi'in, Israel), Evangelos Georganas (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Gradstein (Binyamina, Israel), Christopher Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.), Naveen Mellempudi (Bangalore, India), Simon Rubanovich (Haifa, Israel), Uri Sherman (Bustan Hagalil, Israel) and Zeev Sperber (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing 8-bit floating-poin...