ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,847, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Arithmetic processing offload system, client, server, and arithmetic processing offload method" was invented by Shogo Saito (Musashino, Japan), Kei Fujimoto (Musashino, Japan) and Tetsuro Nakamura (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation system of a client includes: an L3/L4 protocol and ACC function and argument data packetizing unit that serializes a function name and argument input from an application side according to a format of a predetermined protocol and packetizes the function name/argument as a payload; and an L3/L4 protocol and ACC function and...