ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,527, issued on April 7, was assigned to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Clockless parallel multiplication circuit" was invented by Makia S Powell (North Dighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplier apparatus computes multiplication of a multiplicand a multiplier to give a product. A multiplicand separator and a multiplier separator receive n bit numbers and separate them into high order segments and low order segments. A first multiplier multiplies the high order segments. Second and third multipliers multiply the high order and low order segments. The products of these multipl...