US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 14 for "Automatic stale data detection for accelerator-enabled programs" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,310, issued on April 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic stale data detection for accelerator-enabled programs" was invented by Michael Joseph Wolfe (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Simone Atzeni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to automatically detect stale data in accelerator-enabled programs. In at least one embodiment, a runtime monitors a software program that has been segmented between accelerated and non-accelerated portions and, during debugging, identifies when various memory locations associated with the accelerated and non-accelerated code segments are...