US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on Sept. 16 for "Floating point accumulater with a single layer of shifters in the significand feedback" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,078, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Floating point accumulater with a single layer of shifters in the significand feedback" was invented by Vojin G. Oklobdzija (Berkeley, Calif.) and Matthew M. Kim (Frankston South, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating-point accumulator circuit includes a floating-point input having an input significand field and a first shifter coupled to the input significand field and providing an output of the input significand field shifted by a first amount. A carry-save adder has a first, second, and third input and an output. The first input is...