ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,076, issued on May 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Offloaded data processing for named based data transmissions" was invented by Marcin Spoczynski (Hillsboro, Ore.), Hao Feng (Hillsboro, Ore.), Maruti Gupta Hyde (Portland, Ore.), Nageen Himayat (Fremont, Calif.), Srikathyayani Srikanteswara (Portland, Ore.) and Yi Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor that includes a named data network (NDN) forwarding daemon (NFD) module. The NFD module may be configured to identify an accelerator on which to configure an offloaded NFD module based on a configuration table indica...