US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on April 15 for "Exact versus inexact decimal floating-point numbers and computation system" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,404, issued on April 15, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Exact versus inexact decimal floating-point numbers and computation system" was invented by Muhamed F. Mudawar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure represents an improved computer system and process to avoid the consequences of improper conversion of numbers and of rounding errors. This process makes the distinction between exact and inexact decimal floating-point numbers. If the result of a sequence of operation is exact, the user can trust that every decimal digit in the computed result i...