ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,856, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secured accelerated unit processing in a distributed processing system" was invented by Ahmet Artu Yildirim (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed processing system includes one or more accelerated units (AUs) connected to a network. To control access to the AUs by one or more users over the network, the distributed processing system includes a control plane circuitry connected to the network. The control plane circuitry is configured to grant a user access to one or more AUs connected to the network based on user securi...