ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,237, issued on July 29, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Logical memory addressing by smart NIC across multiple devices" was invented by Alex Markuze (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Shay Vargaftik (Herzliya, Israel), Igor Golikov (Kfar Saba, Israel), Yaniv Ben-Itzhak (Afek, Israel) and Avishay Yanai (Petach-Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for sending data messages at a network interface controller (NIC) of a computer. From a network stack executing on the computer, the method receives (i) a header for a data message to send and (ii) a logical memory address of a payload for the da...