ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,504, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques to use descriptors for packet transmit scheduling" was invented by Ben-Zion Friedman (Jerusalem), Noam Elati (Zichron yaakov, Israel) and Sarig Livne (Schanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to use descriptors for packet transmit scheduling include grouping a plurality of data descriptors associated with blocks of data with a single descriptor. The single descriptor to include information related to the plurality of data descriptors. The single descriptor to be used to schedule transmission of the blocks of data from a computing p...