ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,372, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Firmware-controlled memory binding and implicit data persistence for hardware accelerators" was invented by Dawid Stanislaw Pajak (San Carlos, Calif.), Lachlan Francis Dowling (Bend, Ore.), Nan Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Rohit Goel (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples, systems, and methods relate to facilitating memory use by a hardware accelerator. A system can check whether an on-chip memory region has already been set up for a given use. If it has, the system can reuse it. If not, the system can allocate a new region and connec...