ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,493, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for allocating graphics processing unit partitions for a computer vision environment" was invented by Ian Roche (Glanmire, Ireland), Philip Hummel (San Jose, Calif.) and Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for allocating graphics processing unit partitions for a computer vision environment. The method includes obtaining, by a computer vision (CV) manager, an initial graphics processing unit (GPU) partition allocation request associated with a CV workload; in resp...