ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,958, issued on May 20, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France) and Le Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA) (Paris).

"Offset network card computing blade" was invented by Sebastien Magnoux (Mery-sur-Oise, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing blade for a liquid-cooled supercomputer, including as many network cards as there are processors, each network card being associated with a processor. Each network card includes a plug-in end that receives a connector, and each network card allows data communication between the processor and another processor. Each network card is mounte...