ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,394, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Dynamic directional rounding" was invented by Alex Fit-Florea (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Boris Ginsburg (Mountain View, Calif.), Pooya Davoodi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Amir Gholaminejad (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for rounding floating point values. Dynamic directional rounding is a rounding technique for floating point operations. A floating point operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.) is performed on an operand to compute a floating point result. A sign (pos...