ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,880, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Plurality of smart network interface cards on a single compute node" was invented by Kiran K N (Bangalore, India), Yuvaraja Mariappan (San Jose, Calif.), Vinod Nair (San Jose, Calif.) and Shailender Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques and computing devices are disclosed. An example computing device includes a first non-uniform memory access (NUMA) node and a second NUMA nod. The first NUMA node includes a first network interface card, a first virtual router for one or more virtual networks, the first vi...