US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 31 for "Technique for sharing context among multiple threads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,473, issued on March 31, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technique for sharing context among multiple threads" was invented by Kyrylo Perelygin (San Jose, Calif.), Cory Perry (San Jose, Calif.) and Ze Long (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to execute programs in a single hardware context on a graphics processing unit (GPU). In at least one embodiment, resource management patches expressed in library or executable code are applied to one or more kernels to ensure execution in a shared context on a GPU."

The patent was filed on June 30, 2021, under Application N...