ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,793, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Initiator-side offload for scale-out storage" was invented by Salma Mirza Johnson (Littleton, Mass.), Jose Niell (Franklin, Mass.), Bradley A. Burres (Newton, Mass.), Yadong Li (Portland, Ore.), Scott D. Peterson (Beaverton, Ore.), Tony Hurson (Austin, Texas) and Sujoy Sen (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device that includes circuitry to perform operations, offloaded from a host, to identify at least one locator of at least one target storage associated with a storage access command based o...