ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,664, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Accelerator for concurrent insert and lookup operations in cuckoo hashing" was invented by Prerna Budhkar (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tanvi Sharma (West Lafayette, Ind.), Srivatsa Rangachar Srinivasa (Hillsboro, Ore.), Dileep John Kurian (Portland, Ore.) and Tanay Karnik (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hash accelerator of a cache memory may receive a query from a processor comprising the cache memory, the query to comprise an input key and an operation to be performed based on a hash table stored in the cache memory. The hash accelerator may determine...