ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,888, issued on March 4, was assigned to ALIBABA (CHINA) Co. LTD. (Zhejiang Province, China).
"GPU and GPU method" was invented by Haoran Li (Shanghai), Fei Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuan Gao (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GPU and a GPU method are provided. The GPU includes stream multiprocessors, an available hardware resource table, resource comparator, stream scheduler, and global dispatcher. Each stream multiprocessor executes at least one thread block. The available hardware resource table records hardware resources available to the stream multiprocessors. The resource comparator selects from first-priority kernel co...