US Patent Issued to Next Silicon on Dec. 2 for "Automatic generation of computation kernels for approximating elementary functions" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,903, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Next Silicon Ltd (Givatayim, Israel).

"Automatic generation of computation kernels for approximating elementary functions" was invented by Daniel Khankin (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for computing functions using polynomial-based approximation, comprising one or more processing circuitries configured for computing a polynomial-based approximant approximating a function by executing one or more iterations. Each iteration comprising computing the polynomial-based approximant using scaled fixed-point unit(s) according to a constructed set of coefficients, minimizin...