US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundaton on Oct. 6 for "Floating-point multiplication unit and floating point photonic tensor accelerator" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,712, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundaton Inc (Orlando, Fla.).

"Floating-point multiplication unit and floating point photonic tensor accelerator" was invented by Guifang Li (Orlando, Fla.) and Sean Pang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplication unit, such as a photonic multiplication unit, for multiplication of a floating point number is claimed. A first signal is produced representing an exponent of a floating point number mapped onto the frequency of a harmonic wave. A second signal is produced representing a significand of the floating point number mapped onto an a...