ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,429, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"USB device-initiated data transfers and platform offload capabilities" was invented by Aruni Nelson (Folsom, Calif.) and Abdul Ismail (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for USB Device-initiated data transfers and platform offload capabilities, and related processing and communication capabilities in a USB Host, are discussed. An example method for data offloading of data from a USB Device to a USB Host includes: receiving a data available notification from a USB Device connected to a USB Host via a USB interface; using a...