ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,296, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for improved data transfer for heterogeneous programs" was invented by Kermin ChoFleming (Hudson, Mass.) and Swapna Raj (Westport, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for improving data transfer for heterogeneous programs. An example apparatus includes instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to at least one of execute or instantiate the instructions to determine a runtime associated with executing a code object by a h...