ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,181, issued on May 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for transparent FPGA reconfiguration" was invented by Glen Sescila (Austin, Texas) and Srikrishna Ramaswamy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system or method for offloading data operations to a field programmable gate array (FPGA), that includes loading, by the FPGA, a descriptor ring, performing a first lookup, in the descriptor ring, to identify a first descriptor entry, identifying, in the first descriptor entry, a first data operation, making a first determination that the first data operation is unavailable in any of ...