ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,551, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for associating computational device functions with compute engines" was invented by William Martin (Roseville, Calif.) and Oscar P. Pinto (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include creating an association identifier based on an association between a computational device function and a compute engine of a computational device, and invoking an execute command to perform an execution of the computational device function using the compute engine, wherein the execute command uses the association ...