US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 17 for "Implementing specialized floating point instructions on an integer pipeline for accelerating dynamic programming algorithms" (California, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,493, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Implementing specialized floating point instructions on an integer pipeline for accelerating dynamic programming algorithms" was invented by Maciej Piotr Tyrlik (Durham, N.C.), Ajay Sudarshan Tirumala (San Jose, Calif.), Shirish Gadre (Fremont, Calif.), Frank Joseph Eaton (Austin, Texas) and Daniel Alan Stiffler (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for accelerating dynamic programming algorithms are provided. For example, a fused addition and comparison instruction, a three-operand comparison instruction, and a two-operand c...