ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,568, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Astera Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Switching device with in-transit-compute function" was invented by Ilya Lyubomirsky (Pleasanton, Calif.), Enrique Musoll (San Jose, Calif.), Caleb Andrew Shetland (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christian Markus Petersen (Golden, Colo.), Hemant Vinchure (San Jose, Calif.), Wesley Wai Lek Yung (North Vancouver, Canada), Vikram Sharma (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jitendra Mohan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch IC includes computational circuitry to execute arithmetic and/or logic functions with respect to data otherwise propagating, through the...