ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,249, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Floating point pre-alignment structure for computing-in-memory applications and computing method thereof" was invented by Meng-Fan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ping-Chun Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jin-Sheng Ren (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Yang Hong (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ho-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating point pre-alignment structure for computing-in-memory applications includes a time domain exponent computing block and an input mantissa pre-align block. The time domain exponent computing block is configured to compute a p...