ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,009, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtual device portability" was invented by Anjali Singhai Jain (Portland, Ore.), Noam Elati (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Eliel Louzoun (Jerusalem) and Daniel Daly (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device comprising: a device interface; at least one processor; a direct memory access (DMA) device; and a packet processing circuitry. In some examples, the at least one processor, when operational, is configured to: in connection with a first operation: perform a format translation of a first d...