ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,800, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to control execution of graph nodes" was invented by Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones (San Francisco), Jason David Gaiser (Campbell, Calif.), David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.), Sally Tessa Stevenson (Broomfield, Colo.) and Steven Arthur Gurfinkel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to facilitate execution graph control. In at least one embodiment, an application programming interface comprising one or more parameters is used to control which of one or more portions of gr...