Patents by Inventor Muhammad S. Hag

Muhammad S. Hag 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).

  • Pipelined floating point adder for digital computer
    Patent number: 4994996
    Abstract: A system for subtracting two floating-point binary numbers in a pipelined floating-point adder/subtractor by aligning the two fractions for sustraction; arbitrarily designating the fraction of one of the two floating-point numbers as the subtrahend, and producing the complement of that designated fraction; adding that complement to the other fraction, normalizing the result; determining whether the result is negative and, if it is, producing the complement of the normalized result; and selecting the larger of the exponents of the two floating-point numbers, and adjusting the value of the selected exponent in accordance with the normalization of the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Tryggve Fossum, William R. Grundmann, Muhammad S. Hag