ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,307, issued on June 3.

"PCI express to PCI express based low latency interconnect scheme for clustering systems" was invented by Mammen Thomas (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "PCI-Express (PCIE) is a hierarchical Bus or-I/O interconnect standard-used for interconnection between a root-complex of a PCIE enabled computing system and peripheral devices over the bus that may include hierarchically connected and controlled PCIE switches.The current application describes a PCIE based interconnect scheme for a plurality of PCIE enabled computing systems connected in a cluster using a network switch, having a plurality of inbound PCIE ...