ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,837, issued on Sept. 2.

"Method and system for acceleration or offloading utilizing a unified data pointer" was invented by Chul Lee (Los Angeles), Hui Zhang (Los Angeles), Shan Xiao (Beijing), Bo Li (Beijing), Ping Zhou (Los Angeles) and Fei Liu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for performing an acceleration process by offloading an operation. The system includes a hardware offloading engine that includes a hardware accelerator for performing the acceleration process. The hardware accelerator has a processor configured to receive a hardware offloading command, the hardware offloading command ...