ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,879, issued on July 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Lock-free unordered in-place compaction" was invented by Pascal Gautron (Speracedes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include techniques for lock-free, unordered in-place compaction of an array. The techniques include receiving a first array that includes a first plurality of data entries, generating a second array that includes a second plurality of data entries, and storing, in the second array, respective index positions of valid data entries included in the first array and invalid data entries included in the first array. The techn...