US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Software defined networking with en-route computing" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,026, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Software defined networking with en-route computing" was invented by Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), S M Iftekharul Alam (Hillsboro, Ore.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Satish Chandra Jha (Portland, Ore.) and Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases include en-route computing coordination. A method may include receiving a packet including a compute task and context information, identifying a destination node for the packet, and determining a route for the packet to...