ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,131, issued on June 10, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Virtual accelerators in a virtualized computing system" was invented by Bing Niu (Beijing), Jin He (Beijing), Qi Liu (Beijing), Sheng Fang (Beijing), Xiangdong Che (Beijing) and Xiangjun Song (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of offloading a compute task to an accelerator by an application executing in a host cluster includes: sending, by an application executing in an initiator host, the compute task to a virtual accelerator in the initiator host, the virtual accelerator paired with a hardware accelerator in a target host of the host clu...