ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,212, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Control of storage aliasing via automatic application of artificial dependences during program compilation" was invented by Malay Sanghi (Pune, India) and Duane Merrill (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed relating to aliasing control of program variables in storage via automatic application of artificial dependences during program compilation. In some implementations, a system can include a detector to automatically detect a pattern, based at least on a structure of data flow in a source...