US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Dec. 30 for "Dynamic reconfiguration of a multi-core processor to a unified core" (Oregon, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,127, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic reconfiguration of a multi-core processor to a unified core" was invented by Polychronis Xekalakis (Portland, Ore.), Samuel Charles Tsen Jr. (Portland, Ore.), David Hass (Cupertino, Calif.), Guillermo J. Rozas (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen (Raleigh, N.C.), Nickolas Andrew Fortino (San Jose, Calif.), Ross Segelken (Portland, Ore.), Michael P. Cornaby (Hillsboro, Ore.), Nikhita Kunati (San Ramon, Calif.) and Sean Benton Franey (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first thread is executed in a first pipeline of a first core of an...