ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,920, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Segment to segment network interface" was invented by Sergio Kolor (Haifa, Israel), Lior Zimet (Haifa, Israel), Opher D. Kahn (Zichron Yacov, Israel), Eran Tamari (Herzeliya Pituach, Israel), Tzach Zemer (Haifa, Israel) and Per H. Hammarlund (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of integrated circuits have subsets of a plurality of agents. The plurality of integrated circuits may have network segments implemented wholly (e.g., entirely) within the respective integrated circuits and may have segment to seg...