US Patent Issued to Next Silicon on May 12 for "Correctly rounded table-based computation of logarithmic function" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,678, issued on May 12, was assigned to Next Silicon Ltd (Givatayim, Israel).

"Correctly rounded table-based computation of logarithmic function" was invented by Daniel Khankin (Beer Sheva, Israel), Tomer Levin (New York) and Daniel Srebnik (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of computing logarithms, comprising receiving a number, computing an exponent and significand of the received number, selecting a breakpoint value from a plurality of breakpoint values segmenting a range of the significand wherein the selected breakpoint value is the significand's greatest lower bound or lowest upper bound, computing a multiplicatio...