ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,094, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Predicting application states for supplemental content insertion" was invented by Andrew Fear (Cedar Park, Texas) and YuCheng Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein provide systems and methods for determining different states for distributed computing processes based on information acquired from underlying hardware. Different tasks may be executed by hardware for a given distributed computing process having a certain hardware configuration and for a given application. Telemetry information may be acquired to ide...