US Patent Issued to Intel on June 17 for "Network interface for data transport in heterogeneous computing environments" (Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,142, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network interface for data transport in heterogeneous computing environments" was invented by Pratik M. Marolia (Hillsboro, Ore.), Rajesh M. Sankaran (Portland, Ore.), Ashok Raj (Portland, Ore.), Nrupal Jani (Hillsboro, Ore.), Parthasarathy Sarangam (Portland, Ore.) and Robert O. Sharp (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface controller can be programmed to direct write received data to a memory buffer via either a host-to-device fabric or an accelerator fabric. For packets received that are to be written to a memory buffer associated...