US Patent Issued to Rambus on July 14 for "Multiple precision memory system" (Vermont, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,871, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multiple precision memory system" was invented by Thomas Vogelsang (Jericho, Vt.) and Craig E. Hampel (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Space in a memory is allocated based on the highest used precision. When the maximum used precision is not being used, the bits required for that particular precision level (e.g., floating point format) are transferred between the processor and the memory while the rest are not. A given floating point number is distributed over non-contiguous addresses. Each portion of the given floating point number is located a...