US Patent Issued to Intel on July 1 for "Computer processor for higher precision computations using a mixed-precision decomposition of operations" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,692, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Computer processor for higher precision computations using a mixed-precision decomposition of operations" was invented by Gregory Henry (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Alexander Heinecke (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments detailed herein relate to arithmetic operations of float-point values. An exemplary processor includes decoding circuitry to decode an instruction, where the instruction specifies locations of a plurality of operands, values of which being in a floating-point format. The exemplary processor further includes execution circuitry ...