ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,462, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Application programming interface using node dependencies" was invented by David Anthony Fontaine (Mountain View, Calif.) and Steven Arthur Gurfinkel (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause dependency type information of one or more user-indicated graph nodes of a software graph to be indicated. In at least one embodiment, one or more dependency types from a graph are indicated."
The patent was filed on Feb. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/114,831...