US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 21 for "Caching of compiled shader programs in a cloud computing environment" (American, Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,020, issued on July 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Caching of compiled shader programs in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Paul Albert Lalonde (Victoria, Canada), Franck Diard (Roquefort les pins, France), Patrick James Neill (Sherwood, Ore.), Michael Oxford (San Jose, Calif.) and Todd Michael Poynter (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for caching of compiled shader programs in a cloud computing environment. An initial request for a compiled shader program for an application executed by a first client device is received. The initial request in...