US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 3 for "Thread specialization for collaborative data transfer and computation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,410, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Thread specialization for collaborative data transfer and computation" was invented by Chao Li (Austin, Texas), Jing Li (Shanghai), Alan Kaatz (Seattle), Ronny Meir Krashinsky (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Albert Xu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform a matrix multiplication using parallel processing. In at least one embodiment, a matrix multiplication is divided into a set of tiles, with each tile processed with a prolog task, a calculation task, and an epilog task. The prolog tasks are performed by ...