ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,065, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Address size conversion via application programming interface" was invented by Yashwardhan Narawane (San Jose, Calif.), Ze Long (San Jose, Calif.), Rishkul Kulkarni (Austin, Texas), Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.) and Vikram Dhar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to cause to cause one or more first storage address sizes to be converted into one or more second storage address sizes. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause on...