ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,186, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hardware accelerator service aggregation" was invented by Shrikant Kelkar (San Jose, Calif.), Gargi Adhav (San Jose, Calif.), Lakshmi Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.), Manoj Jayadevan (Cupertino, 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 local and remote hardware (HW) accelerator cards. A local hardware (HW) accelerator card may provide, via a communication interface, a list...