ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,411, issued on May 13, was assigned to Singular Computing LLC (Newton, Mass.).

"Processing with compact arithmetic processing element" was invented by Joseph Bates (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor or other device, such as a programmable and/or massively parallel processor or other device, includes processing elements designed to perform arithmetic operations (possibly but not necessarily including, for example, one or more of addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division) on numerical values of low precision but high dynamic range ("LPHDR arithmetic"). Such a processor or other device may, for example, ...