ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,601, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Host-facing DMA failure detection for transport offload with multi-stage queue operations" was invented by Xuyang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vishwas Danivas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sanjay Shanbhogue (Santa Clara, Calif.), Murty Subbaramachandra Kotha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mehul Jitendrabhai Vora (Hyderabad, India) and Rohit Kailash Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe including one or more error indicating bits in a task pointer (e.g., a WQE) to tell a downstream queue or stage, such as a pipelin...