ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,561, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Cloud scale multi-tenancy for RDMA over converged ethernet (RoCE)" was invented by Santosh Narayan Shilimkar (San Jose, Calif.), David Dale Becker (Seattle) and Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for data networking are described. In one example, a method includes receiving a first Layer-2 Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) packet which includes a virtual local area network (VLAN) tag and a quality-of-service (QoS) data field; converting the first Layer-2 RDMA packet to a first Layer...