US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 21 for "Virtualizing hardware processing resources in a processor" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,473, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtualizing hardware processing resources in a processor" was invented by Jerome F. Duluk Jr. (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gentaro Hirota (San Jose, Calif.), Ronny Krashinsky (Portola Valley, Calif.), Greg Palmer (Cedar Park, Texas), Jeff Tuckey (Saratoga, Calif.), Kaushik Nadadhur (Bangalore, India), Philip Browning Johnson (San Jose, Calif.) and Praveen Joginipally (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing hardware of a processor is virtualized to provide a facade between a consistent programming interface and specific hardware instances. Hardwa...