US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for accelerating the computation of the exponential function" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,466, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for accelerating the computation of the exponential function" was invented by Jinwen Xi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ritchie Zhao (Redmond, Wash.), Ming Gang Liu (Kirkland, Wash.) and Eric S. Chung (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a field programmable gate array (FPGA) configured to implement an exponential function data path including: an input scaling stage including constant shifters and integer adders to scale a mantissa portion of an input floating-...