ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,016, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware support for low latency microservice deployments in switch" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.) and Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for hardware support for low latency microservice deployments in switches. A switch is communicatively coupled via a network or fabric to a plurality of platforms configured to implement one or more microservices. The microservices are used to perform a distributed workload, job, or task as defined by a corre...