ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,080, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for supporting distributed graphics and compute engines and synchronization in multi-dielet parallel processor architectures" was invented by Timothy Ian Milne (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vaishali Kulkarni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Debajit Bhattacharya (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ashish Kumar Maurya (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tong Tong (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vadiraj Alias Abhay Ayachit (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chase Caldwell Wheeler (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes supporting distributed graphics and compute ...