ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,959, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Compute task state encapsulation" was invented by Jerome F. Duluk Jr. (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lacky V. Shah (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Sean J. Treichler (Piedmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for encapsulating compute task state that enables out-of-order scheduling and execution of the compute tasks. The scheduling circuitry organizes the compute tasks into groups based on priority levels. The compute tasks may then be selected for execution using different scheduling schemes. Each group ...