US Patent Issued to Intel on April 21 for "BFLOAT16 square root and/or reciprocal square root instructions" (Israeli, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,175, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"BFLOAT16 square root and/or reciprocal square root instructions" was invented by Menachem Adelman (Haifa, Israel), Alexander Heinecke (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Zeev Sperber (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Amit Gradstein (Binyamina, Israel), Mark Charney (Lexington, Mass.), Evangelos Georganas (San Mateo, Calif.), Dhiraj Kalamkar (Bangalore, India), Christopher Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Cristina Anderson (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing square root or reciprocal square root calculat...