US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 17 for "Technique for inter-procedural memory address space optimization in GPU computing compiler" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,941, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technique for inter-procedural memory address space optimization in GPU computing compiler" was invented by Xiangyun Kong (Union City, Calif.), Jian-Zhong Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Yuan Lin (Cupertino, Calif.) and Vinod Grover (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device compiler and linker is configured to optimize program code of a co-processor enabled application by resolving generic memory access operations within that program code to target specific memory spaces. In situations where a generic memory access operation cannot be resolved ...