US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 18 for "Offloading shader program compilation" (Canadian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,554, issued on March 18, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Offloading shader program compilation" was invented by Paul Albert Lalonde (Victoria, Canada), Franck Diard (Roquefort les pins, France) and Patrick Neill (Sherwood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to apparatuses, systems, and techniques of offloading shader program compilation at a computing system. A detection is made that a set of shader programs are to be compiled for an application executing at a computing system using a first set of processing devices. A second set of processing devices to compi...