ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,974, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Quick user datagram protocol (UDP) internet connections (QUIC) packet offloading" was invented by Manasi Deval (Portland, Ore.), Gregory J. Bowers (Hillsboro, Ore.), Joshua A. Hay (Hillsboro, Ore.), Maciej Machnikowski (Wejherowo, Poland), Natalia Wochtman (Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland) and Joanna Muniak (Stroza, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a method of opening a Quick User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Internet Connections (QUIC) socket on a computing platform, initializing QUIC packet processing of a hardware-based offloader, opening...