ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,950, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficient one-sided communication in a distributed system" was invented by Naveen Namashivayam Ravichandrasekaran (St. Paul, Minn.) and Nathan L. Wichmann (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing node in a distributed system is provided. During operation, the node can send, from a source process using direct memory transfer, a first set of data elements from a source buffer to a NIC of a target node executing a target process. These processes may be among a plurality of processes performing a distributed operation ac...