ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,954, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"In-switch collective primitive processing" was invented by Bruce Gregory Warren (Poulsbo, Wash.), Rohit Bhatia (Fort Collins, Colo.), Eric Richard Borch (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Douglas Joseph (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for distributed, in-switch collective processing. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include configuring the group of collective engines as one or more logical collective engines. The systems, devices, and methods include distributing a collecti...