ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,534, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Overflow event counter" was invented by Alan Alexander (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain) and Dominic Masters (Birmingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device comprises a register configured to store a count value indicating a number of times overflow events have resulted from arithmetic operations performed by the processing device. An execution unit of the device, in response to performing an arithmetic operation having a result which extends beyond one of the predefined limit values for the floating-point format, stores a...