Nvidia patents API to track memory transactions
Nvidia has been granted a patent for a software interface that allows programs to check the status of memory operations. The system reports which data transfers have finished when specific tasks reach a set synchronization point.
In the filing’s own words
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to provide memory transaction information. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause information about one or more memory transactions to be provided to one or more users.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. One or more processors, comprising: circuitry to, in response to an application programming interface (API) call, cause a state of an object usable to track one or more memory transactions to be provided in an API response to the API call, wherein the one or more memory transactions are initiated by one or more threads that have reached a synchronization point provided by the object.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- Application programming interface to provide memory transaction information
- Patent number
- US12762641B2
- Application number
- 18081547
- Filed
- Dec 14, 2022
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 13
- Claims
- 22
Classified under
G06T 1/60 Physics & computingG06F 3/061 Physics & computingG06F 3/0625 Physics & computingG06F 3/0659 Physics & computingG06F 3/0673 Physics & computingG06F 9/3004 Physics & computingMore from Nvidia in AI & software
- Nvidia patents AI coach that analyzes your gameplay to suggest strategies Oct 13, 2026
- Nvidia patents AI system that writes and voices character conversations Sep 10, 2026
- Nvidia patents system that uses AI to find bugs in game videos Sep 17, 2026
- Nvidia patents AI method to make digital characters move realistically Sep 8, 2026
- Nvidia patents AI system that builds image generators from text prompts Sep 15, 2026
Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
Patent data and drawings: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Nebula is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USPTO.