US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 24 for "Application programming interface to indicate null-operation dependencies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,470, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to indicate null-operation 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 null-operation graph 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 a...