ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,062, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to configure processor partitioning" was invented by Kyrylo Perelygin (San Jose, Calif.) and Alicia Xiao Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to configure processor partitioning for a multi-process service. In at least one embodiment, a multi-process service configures a set of streaming multiprocessors of one or more parallel processing units to perform one or more threads in response to an application programming interface (API)."

The patent was filed on Oct. 22, 2021...