ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,234, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intel Products IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to allocate accelerator usage" was invented by Monica Gupta (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mousumi Hazra (Vancouver, Wash.), Javier Martinez (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Stephen H. Gunther (Beaverton, Ore.), Manuj Sabharwal (Folsom, Calif.), Michael Voss (Austin, Texas), Derrick Jones (Portland, Ore.), Saurabh Tangri (Folsom, Calif.), Duncan Glendinning (Chandler, Ariz.) and Dorit Shapira (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to allocate accelerator usage. An appar...