ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,339, issued on March 18, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Methods for application deployment across multiple computing domains and devices thereof" was invented by Timothy Worsley (Liberty Lake, Wash.), Timothy S. Michels (Greenacres, Wash.) and Joel Benjamin Moses (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology related to application deployment across network devices including smart network interface cards. In one example, a method includes distributing an application across a plurality of locally connected computing subdomains. The subdomains can include a mixture of general and special purpose computing subdomains, such as ...