ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,277, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for programming flexible accelerated network pipeline using EBPF" was invented by Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr. (Portland, Ore.), Anjali Singhai Jain (Portland, Ore.), Neerav Parikh (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Parthasarathy Sarangam (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for programming flexible accelerated network pipelines include a comping device with a network controller. The computing device loads a program binary file that includes a packet processing program and a requested hint section. The binary file may be an executable and li...