US Patent Issued to Intel on June 3 for "Compressed wallace trees in FMA circuits" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,714, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compressed wallace trees in FMA circuits" was invented by Aditya Varma (Noida, India), Mahesh Kumashikar (Bangalore, India) and Michael Espig (Newberg, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an apparatus comprises one or more fractional width fused multiply-accumulate (FMA) circuits configured as a shared Wallace tree, and circuitry coupled to the one or more fractional width FMA circuits to provide one or more fractional width FMA operations through the one or more fractional width FMA circuits. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed."

The ...