US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 21 for "Code coverage generation through host-device coordination" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,184, issued on April 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Code coverage generation through host-device coordination" was invented by Hari Sandanagobalane (Kirkland, Wash.), Sean Youngsung Lee (Kirkland, Wash.) and Vinod Grover (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method of compiling a program having a mixture of host code and device code to enable code coverage data collection for device code execution. An exemplary integrated compiler can compile source code programmed to be executed by a host processor (e.g., CPU) and a co-processor (e.g., a GPU) concurrently. The compilation can gene...