US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on April 8 for "Inequality check with ternary cam" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,401, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Inequality check with ternary cam" was invented by Ron M. Roth (Palo Alto, Calif.), Luca Buonanno (Spring, Texas), Giacomo Pedretti (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy) and Catherine Graves (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing a low power and area ternary content addressable memory (TCAM). An example of a TCAM comprises a match line, and a plurality of TCAM cells connected along the match line. Each TCAM cell stores a state of a threshold value. The TCAM cells are configured to pu...