ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,329, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, apparatus and methods for direct data reads from memory" was invented by Robert Blankenship (Tacoma, Wash.) and Debendra Das Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a system may include an interconnect device comprising first, second, and third ports; a first processor coupled to the first port; a second processor coupled to the second port; and a system memory coupled to the third port. The interconnect device may be to: receive, from the first processor via the first port, a speculative read request for a data element...