Patents by Inventor James Charles Brakefield

James Charles Brakefield has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for handling overflow and underflow in processing floating-point numbers
    Patent number: 5892697
    Abstract: A method for processing floating-point numbers, each floating-point number having at least sign portion, an exponent portion and a mantissa portion, comprising the steps of converting a floating-point number memory register representation to a floating-point register representation; rounding the converted floating-point number; performing an arithmetic computation upon said rounded number resulting in a new floating-point value; and converting the resulting new floating-point register value to a floating-point memory register representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Inventor: James Charles Brakefield