ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,658, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to perform packet switching between services on different processors in a compute node in a server" was invented by Tomasz Kantecki (Ennis, Ireland), Paul Hough (Shannon, Ireland), David Cremins (Toomaline, Ireland), Ciara Loftus (Tuam, Ireland), Aman Deep Singh (Chandigarh, India), John J. Browne (Limerick, Ireland), David Hunt (Meelick, Ireland), Maksim Lukoshkov (Clarecastle, Ireland), Amruta Misra (Bangalore, India), Nirint Shah (Bangalore, India) and Chris Macnamara (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-to-proce...