US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Floating-point conversion with denormalization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,430, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Floating-point conversion with denormalization" was invented by Michael Klein (Schoenaich, Germany), Petra Leber (Ehningen, Germany), Cedric Lichtenau (Stuttgart, Germany), Stefan Payer (Stuttgart, Germany) and Kerstin Claudia Schelm (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for floating-point conversion with denormalization in a single clock cycle. An input floating-point number corresponding to an input data type is received. An exponent value and a fraction value are...