ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,058, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Constant memory segmentation for parallel processors" was invented by Deepak Cholayil Unnikrishnan (San Jose, Calif.) and Ming Liang Milton Lei (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, constant memory segmentation for autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that partition a constant memory into a number of segments. In some examples, the constant memory is partitioned into equally sized segments while, in some examples, the constant memory is partitioned into varying sized seg...