US Patent Issued to XILINX on May 20 for "Dynamic adjustment of floating point exponent bias for exponent compression" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,217, issued on May 20, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic adjustment of floating point exponent bias for exponent compression" was invented by Eric F. Dellinger (Longmont, Colo.) and Philip B. James-Roxby (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for compressing exponents of floating point values include accumulating a distribution of values of exponents of the first set of floating point values, and compressing the exponents of the first set of floating point values into a compressed exponent bit-width as a function of a compressed exponent bias. The compressed exponent bit-width and the compre...