ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,974, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive collaborative memory with the assistance of programmable networking devices" was invented by Ren Wang (Portland, Ore.), Christian Maciocco (Portland, Ore.), Yipeng Wang (Portland, Ore.), Kshitij A. Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, Ore.), Satish C. Jha (Portland, Ore.), S M Iftekharul Alam (Hillsboro, Ore.), Srikathyayani Srikanteswara (Portland, Ore.) and Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for adaptive collaborative memory with the assistance of programmable n...