ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,609, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Apparatus and method for processing floating-point numbers" was invented by Sam Elliott (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and associated methods for processing two floating-point numbers (A, B) to generate a sum (A+B) of the two numbers and a difference (A-B) of the two numbers include calculating (806) a sum (|A|+|B|) of the absolute values of the two floating-point numbers, using a same-sign floating-point adder (1020), to produce a first result. The method further comprises calculating (808) a difference (|A|-|B|) o...