ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,218, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optical communication for memory disaggregation in high performance computing" was invented by Horia Alexandru Toma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zuowei Shen (Los Altos, Calif.), Hong Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yujeong Shim (Cupertino, Calif.), Biao He (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jaesik Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Georgios Konstadinidis (San Jose, Calif.), Teckgyu Kang (Saratoga, Calif.), Igor Arsovski (Williston, Vt.) and Sukalpa Biswas (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology generally relates to disaggregating memory from an application specific integrate...