ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,766, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hardware accelerator service discovery" was invented by Shrikant Kelkar (San Jose, Calif.), Lakshmi Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.), Manoj Jayadevan (Cupertino, Calif.), Gargi Adhav (San Jose, Calif.), Parveen Patel (Cupertino, Calif.) and Parthasarathy Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for discovering capabilities of a hardware (HW) accelerator card. A processor may communicate a request for a listing of acceleration services to a HW accelerator card connecte...