ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,740, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Conditional graph code capture application programming interface" was invented by Jason David Gaiser (San Diego), David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.), Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones (San Francisco), Steven Arthur Gurfinkel (San Jose, Calif.), Houston Thompson Hoffman (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Nicholas Pesut (Groton, Mass.) and Sally Tessa Stevenson (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods to perform an application programming interface (API) to indicate one or more graph code portions to be re-performed...