ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,829, issued on April 14, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network collective offload message chunking management" was invented by Josiah I. Clark (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device can perform a collective operation on received datasets, and split the result into chunks in accordance with a chunking scheme. The device can also forward the chunks in accordance with a routing scheme that can direct chunks to appropriate nodes of a collective network. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed."

The patent was filed on Dec. 14, 2023,...