ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,488, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Content addressable memory with multi-iteration lookup" was invented by Anna Rom-Saksonov (Rosh Haayin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Content-Addressable Memory (CAM) is disclosed in which a single lookup request is split into several iterations, with each iteration having a partial lookup. Results of the partial lookups are incrementally accumulated to obtain a final lookup result. The incremental CAM lookup allows for smaller CAM hardware to be used than typically needed for a similar size lookup, which saves area and power over prior approaches. I...