US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Ranking instances of composite subtraction format using ranked intervals" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,851, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ranking instances of composite subtraction format using ranked intervals" was invented by Ariel Farkash (Shimshit, Israel) and Micha Gideon Moffie (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to receive a value formatted using a composite subtraction format. The processor can determine an interval of a number of intervals that corresponds to the received value using minuend rank. The processor can then calculate rank of the value based on the position of the value within the determined inter...