MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647071016 A) filed by Qualcomm Incorporated on June 08, 2026, for Storing Floating-Point Values According To An Extended Qfloat Floating-Point (xqfp) Format In Processor Devices.
Inventors include Danysh, Albert; Mahurin, Eric Wayne; Guerra, Diego Andres; and Akondi, Butchi Venkata Chaitanya.
The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.
Abstract: Storing floating-point values according to an extended QFloat floating-point (xqFP) format in processor devices is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a processor device comprises a register file comprising a plurality of registers, and comprises a floating-point unit (FPU) circuit that is configured to store a first floating-point value in a register of the plurality of registers. The first floating-point value is formatted according to the xqFP format that comprises an exponent field and a significand field. The significand field is formatted as a signed one's complement value, and comprises a sign bit, an explicit most-significant-bit (MSB), a fractional field, and a deferred increment bit that represents a value of one-half (½) unit of least precision (ULP).
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