US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 17 for "Application programming interface to indicate operations" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,542, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to indicate operations" was invented by Ajit Panditrao Hakke Patil (Louisville, Colo.), Vivek Belve Kini (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Christopher Delorme (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to indicate permitted graphics operations using an application programming interface (API). In at least one embodiment, an API, when executed, identifies permitted graphics operations based, at least in part, on a resource type corresponding to data to be operated on."

The patent was fi...