ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,127, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Memory aware register allocator for graphics processing units" was invented by Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula (Hyderabad, India) and Venkatesh K R (Vijayawada, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing units including an apparatus. The apparatus may load a set of values from a plurality of memories to a set of registers, where the plurality of memories includes at least one first memory and at least one second memory. Further, the apparatus may determine whether (1) a storage level for the at le...