ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,746, issued on May 12, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Graph work submission ordering" was invented by Houston Thompson Hoffman (San Jose, Calif.) and David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform graph nodes. In at least one embodiment, a processor comprises one or more circuits to perform an API to cause one or more first graph nodes to be performed independently with respect to two or more second graph nodes, which have a dependency relationship with respect to each other."

The patent was filed on Oct. 31, 2022, under Application No...