US Patent Issued to Xilinx on Oct. 14 for "Network interface device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,395, issued on Oct. 14, 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), David J. Riddoch (Huntingdon, Great Britain) and Dmitri Kitariev (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Roughly described: a network interface device has an interface. The interface is coupled to first network interface device circuitry, host interface circuitry and host offload circuitry. The host interface circuitry is configured to interface to a host device and has a scheduler configured to schedule providing and/or re...