Thanks to Gerd, there is now a patch for NVIDIA driver 495.44 and Kernel 5.16-rc1, which can be found under the comments on my previous article:  https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2974

Of course, take care to cut/paste in text mode, as html will ruin the formatting etc..

I have applied this, and 495.44 now appears to compile/load/run OK, with kernel 5.16-rc1..

Robert Gadsdon.   November 18th 2021.