ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,344, issued on July 7, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to obtain kernel node context information" was invented by Houston Thompson Hoffman (San Jose, Calif.), David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sally Tessa Stevenson (Broomfield, Colo.).

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 provide one or more indicators of context information corresponding to one or more kernels. The application programming interface can be used to provide indicato...