ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,664, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods relating to a multi-level traffic distribution scheme" was invented by Bryan P. Broussard (Austin, Texas) and Eric Christopher Morton (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed method relating to a multi-level traffic distribution scheme can include sending a message specifying an identifier for a first coherent socket extension link as a destination and routing the message to a second and distinct coherent socket extension link. The identifier for the first coherent socket extension link can include an ali...