ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,616, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generating power efficient secure multiclient performance monitoring data" was invented by Pranav Vaidya (San Jose, Calif.), Alan Menezes (San Jose, Calif.), Siddharth Sharma (San Jose, Calif.), Jin Ouyang (Cupertino, Calif.), Gregory Paul Smith (Leander, Texas), Timothy J. McDonald (Austin, Texas), Shounak Kamalapurkar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Abhijat Ranade (Austin, Texas) and Thomas Melvin Ogletree (Lakeway, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a system for generating performance monitoring data in a computing system. The system ...