US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 8 for "Vector floating-point classification" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,635, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Vector floating-point classification" was invented by Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.), Brett L. Huber (Sugar Land, Texas) and Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods enable the classification of each value of multiple floating-point values stored in a first vector register, and storage in a second vector register multiple elements that each indicate a respective classification of a respective value of the multiple floating-point values. A system includes a functional unit, first and second vector registers coupled to t...