ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,002, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Parallel processing of hierarchical text" was invented by Elias Stehle (Pfaffikon, Switzerland) and Gregory Michael Kimball (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to parse textual data using parallel computing devices. In at least one embodiment, text is parsed by a plurality of parallel processing units using a finite state machine and logical stack to convert the text to a tree data structure. Data is extracted from the tree by the plurality of parallel processors and stored."
The patent was filed on May 11, 20...