ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,121, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Graphics processors and graphics processing units having dot product accumulate instruction for hybrid floating point format" was invented by Subramaniam Maiyuran (Gold River, Calif.), Shubra Marwaha (Folsom, Calif.), Ashutosh Garg (Folsom, Calif.), Supratim Pal (Bangalore, India), Jorge Parra (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Chandra Gurram (Folsom, Calif.), Varghese George (Folsom, Calif.), Darin Starkey (Roseville, Calif.) and Guei-Yuan Lueh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Graphics processors and graphics processing units having dot product accum...