ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,538, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Graph-based memory storage" was invented by Alexander James Collins (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Vinod Grover (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to cause information to be stored in one or more memory locations based, at least in part, on one or more graphs. In at least one embodiment, a compiler analyzes one or more graphs to determine one or more sets of data items to be stored in one or more consecutive memory locations."

The patent was filed on Jan. 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/589,438.

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