US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for a framework for GPU-driven data loading" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,752, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for a framework for GPU-driven data loading" was invented by Minmin Gong (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of data loading at a computing device, data to load is identified at a graphics processing unit (GPU) based on execution of an application program. Data chunks of the identified data in encoded form are loaded via the GPU from a data storage device to a video memory associated with the GPU. The data chunks are decoded in parallel by using plural GPU thread groups in parallel to decode the data chunks. ...