ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,861, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques of handling overlay encapsulation" was invented by Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Dale Becker (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network environment comprises a plurality of host machines that are communicatively coupled to each other via a network fabric comprising a plurality of switches that in turn include a plurality of ports. Each host machine comprises one or more GPUs that execute customer workloads. Described herein are different approaches that provide for addressing the problem of handling netwo...