US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 17 for "Supporting 8-bit floating point format operands in a computing architecture" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,489, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Supporting 8-bit floating point format operands in a computing architecture" was invented by Naveen Mellempudi (Bangalore, India), Subramaniam Maiyuran (Gold River, Calif.), Varghese George (Folsom, Calif.), Fangwen Fu (Folsom, Calif.), Shuai Mu (San Diego), Supratim Pal (Folsom, Calif.) and Wei Xiong (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate supporting 8-bit floating point format operands in a computing architecture is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising: a decoder to decode an instruction fetched for exe...