US Patent Issued to Intel on April 21 for "Floating-point scalar comparison with enhanced flags" (Oregon, Washington, Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,202, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Floating-point scalar comparison with enhanced flags" was invented by John Morgan (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Deepti Aggarwal (Gilbert, Ariz.), Michael Espig (Newberg, Ore.) and H. Peter Anvin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detailed herein are examples of instructions and their hardware support for floating-point comparison that makes use of the distinction between signed integer comparison and unsigned integer comparison to make an analogous distinction between floating-point relationships including unordered and those that do not. These instruc...