US Patent Issued to Intel on May 13 for "Providing native support for generic pointers in a graphics processing unit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,766, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing native support for generic pointers in a graphics processing unit" was invented by Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.), Prathamesh Raghunath Shinde (Folsom, Calif.), Ben J. Ashbaugh (Folsom, Calif.), Wei-Yu Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Vasanth Ranganathan (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Dmitry Yurievich Babokin (San Jose, Calif.) and Ankur N. Shah (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for supporting generic pointers in hardware of a graphics processing unit (GPU) are provided. In various exampl...