US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 18 for "Runtime mechanism to optimize shader execution flow" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,864, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Runtime mechanism to optimize shader execution flow" was invented by Yun Du (San Diego), Eric Demers (San Diego), Andrew Evan Gruber (Arlington, Mass.), Chun Yu (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Baoguang Yang (Fremont, Calif.), Chihong Zhang (San Diego), Yuehai Du (San Diego), Avinash Seetharamaiah (San Diego), Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar (San Diego), Gang Zhong (San Diego), Zilin Ying (San Diego) and Fei Wei (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for...