ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,427, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Leveraging an accelerator device to accelerate hash table lookups" was invented by Jiayu Hu (Shanghai), Ren Wang (Portland, Ore.), Xuan Ding (Shanghai), Cheng Jiang (Shanghai), Cunming Liang (Shanghai), Narayan Ranganathan (Bangalore, India), Rajesh Sankaran (Portland, Ore.) and Xiao Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may determine, based on a length of an input key, whether to compute a hash value based on the input key or cause an accelerator device coupled to the processor to compute the hash value based on the input key. The processor...