ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,326, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compute graph optimization" was invented by Stephen Jones (San Francisco), Steven Arthur Gurfinkel (Santa Clara, Calif.), David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.), Sally Tessa Stevenson (San Jose, Calif.) and Parag Shashikant Kulkarni (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, processors, and techniques to execute graph code. In at least one embodiment, graph code is instantiated and executed using a first set of parameters, and executed a second time, using a second set of parameters, without reinstantiation."

The patent was filed on Feb....