US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Nov. 18 for "Method and apparatus for implied bit handling in floating point multiplication" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,060, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and apparatus for implied bit handling in floating point multiplication" was invented by Mujibur Rahman (Plano, Texas) and Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided for performing, by a processor in response to a floating point multiply instruction, multiplication of floating point numbers. In an example, a device includes a processor that includes a multiply circuit. The multiply circuit is configured to multiply floating point numbers in response to a floating point multiply instructi...