US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 9 for "Network interface device-based computations" (Wisconsin, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,516, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network interface device-based computations" was invented by Yanfang Le (Madison, Wis.), Daniel A. Alvarez (Oakland, Calif.), Amedeo Sapio (San Jose, Calif.) and John Andrew Fingerhut (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a switch comprising: circuitry, when operational, to receive a packet comprising a header and a payload and in conjunction with performance of computation on the packet payload, forward the packet header, but not the payload, to a destination endpoint. In some examples, the destination endpoint of th...