US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Performing comparison operations using extended exponent range floating point values" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,443, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Performing comparison operations using extended exponent range floating point values" was invented by Rostam King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Peter Smith-Lacey (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a processing module for performing a particular comparison operation using floating point values received in one or more input formats, The exponent range of the floating point values is extended. One or more of the following is performed: (a) a floating point value of zero is replaced with a non...