ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,482, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Service mesh offload to network devices" was invented by Shaopeng He (Shanghai), Cunming Liang (Shanghai), Haitao Kang (Shanghai), Hongjun Ni (Shanghai), Jiang Yu (Shanghai), Ziye Yang (Shanghai), Anjali Singhai Jain (Portland, Ore.), Daniel Daly (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Yadong Li (Portland, Ore.), Ping Yu (Shanghai), Bo Cui (Shanghai), Jingjing Wu (Shanghai), Liang Ma (Shannon, Ireland) and Changpeng Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a switch comprising a programmable data plane pipeline, wherein the programmable ...