Granted Patent
Utility
US 5,268,855 · App. 07/944,566
Common format for encoding both single and double precision floating point numbers
Inventors:
Russell W. Mason, Craig A. Heikes
Patented Case
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Granted: Dec 7, 1993
Filed: Sep 14, 1992
Inventors
Russell W. Mason
Craig A. Heikes
Assignee (at issue)
Hewlett-Packard Company, L.P.
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