G06F 7/487
Multiplying
Official title: Multiplying; Dividing {(G06F7/4833, G06F7/4836 take precedence)}
G06F7/487 (Multiplying) appears on 513 US grants and 631 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 631
- Assignees
- 178
- Inventors
- 956
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 38 | 44 |
| 2026 | 18 | 131 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Floating-point multiplication unit and floating point photonic tensor accelerator6 Oct 2026US 12,754,712 B2University of Central Florida Research Foundaton, Inc
- Method and apparatus for permuting streamed data elements8 Sep 2026US 12,730,758 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Electronic device including neural processing unit supporting different data types and method for controlling the same1 Sep 2026US 12,724,586 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Programmable device implementing fixed and floating point functionality in a mixed architecture18 Aug 2026US 12,710,923 B2Altera Corporation
- Method and apparatus with data processing11 Aug 2026US 12,705,022 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Approximate mantissa multiplication for a multiplier8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310407 A1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for accumulating inferred data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310410 A1Expedera, Inc.
- Floating-point multiplication unit and floating point photonic tensor accelerator1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299880 A1University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Multiple-input fused multiply-and-accumulate unit for the logarithm number system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288414 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Systems, methods, and apparatuses for tile transpose24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288459 A1Intel Products IP LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Floating point data processor for high speech operation120US 4,075,704 AFloating Point Systems, Inc. · 1978
- Methods and apparatus for performing division and square root computations in a computer96US 5,404,324 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1995
- Method and apparatus for implementing floating point projection instructions88US 6,049,865 AMotorola, Inc. · 2000
- Highly integrated scalable, flexible DSP megamodule architecture85US 9,606,803 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated · 2017
- Early completion of iterative division77US 6,487,575 B1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · 2002