US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 22 for "Floating point fused multiply add with merged 2's complement and rounding" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,251, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Floating point fused multiply add with merged 2's complement and rounding" was invented by Garrett Joseph Lies (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an unrounded mantissa value and a round bit associated with the unrounded mantissa value. The method also includes receiving a 2's complement signal that indicates whether the unrounded mantissa value results from a 1's complement operation. The method includes incrementing the unrounded mantissa value to provide an incremented value. The unrounded mantissa value is a non-incremented ...