ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,972, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Remote memory function call method and network interface card" was invented by Weibin Lin (Hangzhou, China), Wenkai Ling (Hangzhou, China), Shengyu Shen (Hangzhou, China), Shanggang Xie (Hangzhou, China), Qiuping Pan (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoyu Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote data access method is applied to a first device that is coupled to and communicates with a second device. The first device and the second device each are configured with a network interface card (NIC) having a remote direct memory access (RDMA...