US Patent Issued to Xilinx on Dec. 23 for "Network interface device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,798, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network interface device" was invented by Steven L. Pope (Cambridge, Great Britain), Derek Roberts (Cambridge, Great Britain) and David J. Riddoch (Huntingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface device having an FPGA for providing an FPGA application. A first interface between a host computing device and the FPGA application is provided, allowing the FPGA application to make use of data-path operations provided by a transport engine on the network interface device, as well as communicate with the host. The FPGA application sends and...