ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,295, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Software applications offloading to accelerators" was invented by Ikuo Otani (Musashino, Japan) and Noritaka Horikome (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server control apparatus 100 includes a request and configuration collection unit 120 that acquires a request to offload a certain process of an application to an accelerator for each application in a server, and configurations of the accelerator and the application in a server 30, an optimization arithmetic unit 130 that determines, by referring to information of the acquired request and configurations of the...