ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,936, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficient iterative collective operations using a network-attached memory" was invented by Soumitra Chatterjee (Karnataka, India), Chinmay Ghosh (Karnataka, India), Mashood Abdulla Kodavanji (Karnataka, India) and Sharad Singhal (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a first request to perform a collective operation. The system stores a mapping of a first virtual address to a descriptor for a physical location of an allocated memory region. The system performs the collective operation, by writing data to a ...