ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,231, issued on May 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Packet processing load balancer" was invented by Chenmin Sun (Shanghai), Yipeng Wang (Portland, Ore.), Rahul R. Shah (Chandler, Ariz.), Ren Wang (Portland, Ore.), Sameh Gobriel (Dublin, Calif.), Hongjun Ni (Shanghai), Mrittika Ganguli (Chandler, Ariz.) and Edwin Verplanke (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein include a device interface; a first set of one or more processing units; and a second set of one or more processing units. In some examples, the first set of one or more processing units are to perform heavy flow detecti...