US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Jan. 28 for "Techniques for performing matrix computations using hierarchical representations of sparse matrices" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,080, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for performing matrix computations using hierarchical representations of sparse matrices" was invented by Hanrui Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), James Michael O'Connor (Austin, Texas) and Donghyuk Lee (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment sets forth a technique for performing matrix operations. The technique includes traversing a tree structure to access one or more non-empty regions within a matrix. The tree structure includes a first plurality of nodes and a second plurality of nodes corresponding to non-empty regions in the ...