ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,212, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNTETHER AI Corp. (Toronto).
"Multipart numerical encoding" was invented by Jonathan Andrew Scobbie (Toronto) and Andrew Vincent Rock (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multipart encoded representation or data type may be particularly useful for limited-capacity processors, such as those used in at-memory or single-instruction, multiple data (SIMD) devices. To encode a source number, the source number is quantized as a first binary representation defined by a first set of exponent bits and a first set of mantissa bits to obtain a first encoded part. A difference between the source numb...