US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 15 for "Virtual graphics processing unit scheduling based preemption overhead" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,208, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtual graphics processing unit scheduling based preemption overhead" was invented by Vikas Jain (Pune, India) and Somdutta Roy (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of virtual processing units associated with a physical processing unit is identified. Each of the plurality of virtual processing units is associated with a virtual machine of a plurality of virtual machines that run on respective virtual processing units in round-robin order using respective assigned execution time periods. A first overhead time value associated with r...