ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,212, issued on April 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Programmatically controlled data multicasting across multiple compute engines" was invented by Apoorv Parle (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ronny Krashinsky (Santa Clara, Calif.), John Edmondson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jack Choquette (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shirish Gadre (Santa Clara, Calif.), Steve Heinrich (Santa Clara, Calif.), Manan Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Prakash Bangalore Prabhakar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ravi Manyam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wish Gandhi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lacky Shah (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Alexander L. Minkin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pat...