ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,534, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to indicate thread blocks" was invented by Ze Long (San Jose, Calif.), Kyrylo Perelygin (Broomfield, Colo.), Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.), Gokul Ramaswamy Hirisave Chandra Shekhara (Bangalore, India), Jaydeep Marathe (Kirkland, Wash.), Ronny Meir Krashinsky (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Girish Bhaskarrao Bharambe (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to execute CUDA programs. In at least one embodiment, an application programming interface is performed to indicate two or ...