ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,603, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signed command stream and command execution" was invented by Avinash Seetharamaiah (San Diego), Murat Balci (San Diego), Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar (San Diego), Nigel Poole (West Newton, Mass.) and Abhiraj Deshpande (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for signing and executing graphics processing unit (GPU) commands. In some examples, a method can include receiving, by a GPU, one or more commands including one or more verification signatures generated using a processor, each verification signature of th...