ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,137, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"System and method for facilitating efficient message matching in a network interface controller (NIC)" was invented by Partha Pratim Kundu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew S. Kopser (Seattle), Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain) and Robert Alverson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface controller (NIC) capable of performing message passing interface (MPI) list matching is provided. The NIC can include a host interface, a network interface, and a hardware list-processing engine (LPE). The host interface can couple th...