US Patent Issued to VMware on Jan. 27 for "Methods and systems for using smart network interface cards to secure data transmission between an initiator host running an object and a target host equipped with a disaggregated hardware device that satisfies hardware specifications of the object" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,667, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for using smart network interface cards to secure data transmission between an initiator host running an object and a target host equipped with a disaggregated hardware device that satisfies hardware specifications of the object" was invented by Jin He (Beijing), Bing Niu (Beijing), Jinheng Xu (Beijing), Juan Liu (Beijing) and Xiangjun Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to methods and systems that establish a secure data channel between a host and a disaggregated hardware device ("DHD") of a data center. ...