ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,602, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Parallel thread synchronization" was invented by Piotr Ciolkosz (Stalowa Wola, Poland), Kyrylo Perelygin (San Jose, Calif.), Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.) and Wesley Maxey (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to implement cooperative thread groups. In at least one embodiment, two or more groups of synchronized threads are synchronized and executed in parallel for efficient execution on a GPU."
The patent was filed on July 2, 2021, under Application No. 17/367,053.
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