US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 17 for "Application programming interface to indicate semaphore wait dependencies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,011, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to indicate semaphore wait dependencies" was invented by David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.) and Steven Arthur Gurfinkel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform an application programming interface (API) to add one or more graph nodes to a software graph, wherein the API is to cause a semaphore wait node to be added to a software graph based, at least in part, on a dependency type indicated by the API. In at least one embodiment, one or more nodes are adde...