US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Nov. 3 for "Multiply-accumulate with variable floating point precision" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,248, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Multiply-accumulate with variable floating point precision" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Cheng C. Wang (Los Altos, Calif.), Fang-Li Yuan (San Jose, Calif.) and Nitish U. Natu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit including a multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline including a plurality of multiplier-accumulator circuits to, in operation, perform multiply and accumulate operations, wherein each multiplier-accumulator circuit includes: (i) a multiplier to multiply first input data, having...