US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 17 for "Application programming interface to share memory between groups of blocks of threads" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,993, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to share memory between groups of blocks of threads" was invented by Ze Long (San Jose, Calif.), Kyrylo Perelygin (Broomfield, Colo.), Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.), Gokul Ramaswamy Hirisave Chandra Shekhara (Bangalore, India), Jaydeep Marathe (Kirkland, Wash.), Ronny Meir Krashinsky (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Girish Bhaskarrao Bharambe (Pune, India).

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 p...