ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,985, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Concurrent dataset updates using hash maps" was invented by Pascal Gautron (Speracedes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can perform spatial hash map updates while ensuring the atomicity of the updates for arbitrary data structures. A hash map can be generated for a dataset where entries in the hash map may correspond to multiple independent values, such as pixels of an image to be rendered. Update requests for independent values may be received on multiple concurrent threads, but change requests for ind...