US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 28 for "Hardware-driven call stack attribution" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,874, issued on July 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware-driven call stack attribution" was invented by Avinash Bantval Baliga (Cedar Park, Texas), Gregory Paul Smith (Cedar Park, Texas) and Magnus Strengert (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for hardware-driven call stack attribution. The apparatuses, systems, and techniques include generating and updating call stacks within a processing device during execution of an application. In particular, a branch identifier associated with an instruction being executed by an execution thread is determined. A call...