ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,526, issued on April 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to accelerate matrix operations" was invented by Piotr Majcher (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mostafa Hagog (Folsom, Calif.) and Philippe Vandermersch (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine a matrix multiplication algorithm for a matrix multiplication operation. In at least one embodiment, a matrix multiplication operation is analyzed to determine an appropriate matrix multiplication algorithm to perform the matrix multiplication algorithm."

The patent was filed on March 28,...