ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,941, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Kernel source adaptation for execution on a graphics processing unit" was invented by Hisham Chowdhury (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Guei-Yuan Lueh (San Jose, Calif.) and Kai Chen (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, that if executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: access a kernel source written in a shading language; select a compiler from a plurality of compilers based on the shading language; generate a kernel instruct...