ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,054, issued on May 26, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to add graph node 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 indicate one or more graph node functions of one or more graph nodes 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 graph nodes are added to a software graph based on a node...