US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 8 for "Hardware descriptor mapping" (California, Colorado, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,749, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hardware descriptor mapping" was invented by Liang Li (San Diego), Andrew Evan Gruber (Arlington, Mass.), Zhihong Wang (San Diego), Jonathan Wicks (Lafayette, Colo.), Heng Qi (San Diego), Jiexia Yu (San Diego), Thomas Edwin Frisinger (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Richard Hammerstone (Tyngsboro, Mass.) and Srihari Babu Alla (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for hardware descriptor mapping. A graphics processor may generate a resource descriptor havin...