ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,072, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Service aware routing using network interface cards having processing units" was invented by Raja Kommula (Cupertino, Calif.), Kiran K N (Bangalore, India), Yuvaraja Mariappan (San Jose, Calif.), Thayumanavan Sridhar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raj Yavatkar (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Vikram Singh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprises, receiving resource availability values from the plurality of Network Interface Cards (NICs); determining a data path for data packets of a flow transported using a protocol from a sou...