ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,176, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp..

"Storing kernel attributes" was invented by David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.), Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.), David Dastous St Hilaire (Tracy, Calif.) and Ze Long (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to cause one or more software kernels to be performed based, at least in part, on a data structure to indicate one or more attributes of the one or more software kernels. In at least one embodiment, one or more software kernels are caused to be performed based, at least in part, on a data structure to indicate on...