ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,621, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network interface device reducing startup time of applications" was invented by Ziye Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device that includes circuitry and a memory. In some examples, the circuitry is to perform image construction operations, wherein the image construction operations comprise access to a base image of an application from the memory in the network interface device. In some examples, the circuitry is to provide a host server access to a constructed image bundle of the application...