ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,828, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network interface device management of service execution failover" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.), Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Patrick G. Kutch (Tigard, Ore.) and Marcos E. Carranza (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device that comprises circuitry, when operational, to select a platform to execute a function and based on load of the platform, selectively cause the function to execute on one or more other platforms to attem...