I am not an expert at reading patents so correct me if I am wrong. From what I understood it only appears to cover encoding accelerated using graphics APIs. If

I am not an expert at reading patents so correct me if I am wrong. From what I understood it only appears to cover encoding accelerated using graphics APIs. If you are not using the texture unit for performing loads and your data is not stored as textures on the GPU (and you dont really need it for CUDA programs), then the patent does not seem to apply. As a sidenote, the article linked here gets some basic details wrong ("CUDA was launched in 2008", it was launched earlier than that).