US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Nov. 3 for "Network device configured for workloads in software defined networks" (Washington, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,117, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Network device configured for workloads in software defined networks" was invented by Gerald Roy De Grace (Atlanta), Deepak Bansal (Bellevue, Wash.), Rishabh Tewari (Sammamish, Wash.) and Srikanth Kandula (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced router is described that improves network performance for AI workloads by providing in-network primitives that improve the performance of operations such as Broadcast and Reduce operations. The enhanced router leverages the observation that operations such as the Broadcast and Reduce ...