ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,897, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Processing unit, method and computer program for multiplication" was invented by Sebastian Vogel (Schaidt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit for multiplying a first value by a first multiplicand, or for multiplying the first value by, in each instance, a second and third multiplicand. The processing unit receives the multiplicands in a logarithmic number format, so that the multiplicands are each present in the form of at least one exponent at a specifiable base. The processing unit includes a first register, in which either two expo...