ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,278, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting and optimizing program workload inefficiencies at runtime" was invented by Szymon Migacz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pawel Morkisz (San Jose, Calif.), Alex Fit-Florea (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Maciej Bala (Warsaw, Poland), Jakub Zakrzewski (Warsaw, Poland), Trivikram Krishnamurthy (Los Altos, Calif.), Nitin Nitin (Emeryville, Calif.), Sangkug Lym (San Jose, Calif.), Shang Wang (Oakville, Canada), Chenhan Yu (Mountain House, Calif.) and Alexandre Milesi (Strasbourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for comparing information ob...