ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,257, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for offloading acceleration task scheduling operations to accelerator sleds" was invented by Susanne M. Balle (Hudson, N.H.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Slawomir Putyrski (Gdynia, Poland), Joe Grecco (Saddle Brook, N.J.), Henry Mitchel (Wayne, N.J.), Rahul Khanna (Portland, Ore.) and Evan Custodio (North Attleboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for offloading acceleration task scheduling operations to accelerator sleds include a compute device to receive a request from a compute sled to accelerate the execution...