US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 29 for "Processor instruction for dynamic floating point exponent extraction" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,208, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processor instruction for dynamic floating point exponent extraction" was invented by Diego Andres Guerra (Austin, Texas), Eric Wayne Mahurin (Austin, Texas), Butchi Venkata Chaitanya Akondi (Austin, Texas) and Albert Danysh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for hardware-based floating point exponent extraction. Aspects include invoking an instruction in an instruction set architecture (ISA) associated with the one or more processors in order to extract an exponent from a floating ...