ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,768, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"In-flight incremental processing" was invented by S M Iftekharul Alam (Hillsboro, Ore.), Satish Chandra Jha (Portland, Ore.), Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, Ore.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain) and Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various approaches for deploying and controlling distributed compute operations with the use of infrastructure processing units (IPUs) and similar networked processing units are disclosed. For example, a payload may be received at a networking infrastructure device. Here, the payload is par...