ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,429, issued on July 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Switch-managed resource allocation and software execution" was invented by Patrick Connor (Beaverton, Ore.), James R. Hearn (Hillsboro, Ore.), Kevin Liedtke (Portland, Ore.) and Scott P. Dubal (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a switch device for a rack of two or more physical servers, wherein the switch device is coupled to the two or more physical servers and the switch device performs packet protocol processing termination for received packets and provides payload data from the received packets without a ...