US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Programmable device for executing multiply accumulate operations via look up tables" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,588, issued on Sept. 1.

"Programmable device for executing multiply accumulate operations via look up tables" was invented by Thomas Eric Guttenberger (Keego Harbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a computer processor configured to execute multiply-accumulate operations using dedicated multiplication and addition lookup tables (LUTs). The multiplication LUT generates low-precision, minimum-error products within a normalized range and provides addressing for the addition LUT. The addition LUT operates on same-sign, same-exponent inputs, applies balanced rounding, and determines a base-2 exponent...