ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,358, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for artificial intelligence capabilities at a network device" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Suraj Prabhakaran (Aachen, Germany), Kshitij A. Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Brinda Ganesh (Portland, Ore.) and Timothy Verrall (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include techniques for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities at a network switch. These examples include receiving a request to register a neural network for loading to an inference resource located at the network switch and loading the neural net...