ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,512, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for determining code coverage for GPU shader code" was invented by Prem Kumar (Bangalore, India), Shankar Kudimi (Bangalore, India), Venkat Goriparthi (Hyderabad, India), Pavan Kumar Desai (Bengaluru, India) and Aralakuppe Ramegowda Yogesha (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining code coverage for GPU shader code are provided herein. In one example, a method includes adding a flag for each line of shader code to be executed by a GPU. The method further includes creating at least one...