ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,605, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Concept for providing access to offloading circuitry" was invented by Ziye Yang (Shanghai), Paul Luse (Chandler, Ariz.), James Harris (Chandler, Ariz.) and Benjamin Walker (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to an apparatus, device, method, and computer program for providing access to offloading circuitry of a computer system, to a method and computer program for setting up access to offloading circuitry of a computer system, and to corresponding computer systems. The apparatus comprises circuitry configured to provide a common inter...