US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 27 for "Parallel processing of thread groups" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,493, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Parallel processing of thread groups" was invented by Piotr Ciolkosz (Stalowa Wola, Poland), Kyrylo Perelygin (San Jose, Calif.), Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.) and Wesley Maxey (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate parallel processing. In at least one embodiment, an application programming interface allows a user to define a plurality of cooperative thread groups, and launch multiple cooperative thread groups in parallel provided sufficient processing resources are available."

The pat...