ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,921, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Discovery, configuration, and control of fabric interfaces" was invented by William R. Magro (Champaign, Ill.), Todd M. Rimmer (Exton, Pa.), Robert J. Woodruff (Banks, Ore.), Mark S. Hefty (Aloha, Ore.) and Sayantan Sur (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, at least one interface mechanism may be provided. The mechanism may permit, at least in part, at least one process allocate, at least in part, and/or configure, at least in part, at least one network-associated object. Such allocation and/or configuration, at least in part, may b...