US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 16 for "Coalescing operand register file for graphical processing units" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,083, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Coalescing operand register file for graphical processing units" was invented by Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (Riverside, Calif.), Hodjat Asghari Esfeden (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Daniel Wong (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for register coalescing is described. The system comprises a CORF, a coalescing-aware register file design for GPUs that simultaneously reduces the leakage and dynamic access power, while improving the overall performance of the GPU. CORF achieves these properties by enabling the reads...