ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,284, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to indicate kernel attributes" was invented by David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.), Ze Long (San Jose, Calif.), Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.), David Dastous St Hilaire (Lake Stevens, Wash.) and Michal Dominiak (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to execute software programs. In at least one embodiment, an application programming interface (API) is performed to cause one or more kernel attributes to be indicated to one or more users based, at least in ...