ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,271, issued on June 17, was assigned to REBELLIONS INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Processing device using heterogeneous format input" was invented by Jinseok Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device comprises multiplier circuitry configured to output a product of mantissas represented by first and second signals in response to a mode signal and output a product of an integer represented by the first signal and a mantissa represented by the second signal in response to the mode signal. The processing device further includes an aligning circuit configured to shift a mantissa part of a third si...