US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for efficient access to multidimensional data structures and/or other large data blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,052, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for efficient access to multidimensional data structures and/or other large data blocks" was invented by Alexander L. Minkin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alan Kaatz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Olivier Giroux (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jack Choquette (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shirish Gadre (Santa Clara, Calif.), Manan Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.), John Tran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ronny Krashinsky (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jeff Schottmiller (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel processing unit comprises a plurality of processors each...