G06F 7/49921
Saturation, i.e. clipping the result to a minimum or maximum value
Official title: {Saturation, i.e. clipping the result to a minimum or maximum value}
G06F7/49921 (Saturation, i.e. clipping the result to a minimum or maximum value) appears on 237 US grants and 109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- 11 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Systems and methods for performing vector max/min instructions that also generate index values16 Feb 2021US 10,922,080 B2Intel Corporation
- Variable precision floating-point adder and subtractor21 Aug 2018US 10,055,195 B2Altera Corporation
- Saturation logic19 Feb 2026US 2026/0050411 A1
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- Overflow Event Counter11 Apr 2024US 2024/0118894 A1Graphcore Limited
- Neural network device, method of operating the neural network device, and application processor including the neural network device7 Oct 2021US 2021/0312012 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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- High speed image processing system using separate data processor and address generator229US 4,985,848 AVisual Information Technologies, Inc. · 1991
- Parallel shift and add circuit and method123US 5,390,135 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1995
- Microprocessor capable of unpacking packed data123US 5,802,336 AIntel Corporation · 1998
- Method for packing a plurality of packed data elements in response to a pack instruction110US 5,819,101 AIntel Corporation · 1998