ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,758, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Blockchain processing offload to network device" was invented by Palanivel Andiappan Kodeswaran (Bangalore, India), Sayandeep Sen (Bangalore, India) and Dushyant K. Behl (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of receiving, via a blockchain peer of a blockchain network, a request to execute chaincode of a blockchain of the blockchain network from a client application, offloading one or more of chaincode operations of the request to hardware on a network switch via a network path between t...