ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,560, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Heteromorphic I/O discovery and handshake" was invented by Ben-Shahar Belkar (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Lior Khermosh (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual function (VF) driver is provided, which receives an indication of base address registers (BARs) exposed by an I/O device providing virtualized hardware resources for use by the VF driver. The VF driver performs an internal probe and analysis to determine a target adaptation of at least one of the BARs exposed by the I/O device. A physical function (PF) driver receives ...