ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,490, issued on June 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fragmented transfer of data over networks" was invented by Raghava Sivaramu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vipin Jain (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rajshekhar Biradar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe creating multiple packet fragments from a large data chunk that, for example, exceeds a maximum transmission unit (MTU) supported by a network. In one embodiment, a network interface controller or card (NIC) receives a direct memory access (DMA) from a connected host to transmit an IP packet or data using remote direc...