US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 13 for "Remote front-drop for recovery after pipeline stall" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,452, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Remote front-drop for recovery after pipeline stall" was invented by Thomas Vegas (Gland, Switzerland), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverd, Switzerland), Anirban Karmakar (Ecublens, Switzerland), Giacomo Trifilo (Pully, Switzerland) and Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for performing a remote front-drop of data for recovery after a pipeline stall. The techniques include using a receiver-side dropping strategy that is driven from the sender-side. Components of a pipeline determine...