US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 16 for "Detecting hardware faults in data processing pipelines" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,137, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting hardware faults in data processing pipelines" was invented by Rongzhe Zhu (Shanghai), Shangang Zhang (Suzhou, China), Nagaraju Balasubramanya (Fremont, Calif.), Jinyue Lu (Shanghai) and Tinghai Miao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a system comprising at least one circuit to detect whether a fault has occurred during performance of an operation by the at least one circuit. In at least some embodiments, the at least one circuit generates error detecting values and determines a fault has occurred when the error detectin...