US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 11 for "Decimal floating-point instruction in a round-for-reround mode" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,290, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Decimal floating-point instruction in a round-for-reround mode" was invented by Eric Mark Schwarz (Gardiner, N.Y.) and Martin Stanley Schmookler (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decimal floating-point instruction is executed in a round-for-reround mode. The decimal floating-point instruction is configured to perform a decimal floating-point operation on a decimal floating-point operand. The executing includes forming based on performing the decimal floating-point operation, an intermediate result having a high order portion a...