ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,937, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Innovium Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hash operation manipulations" was invented by William Brad Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Puneet Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain hash-based operations in network devices and other devices, such as mapping and/or lookup operations, are improved by manipulating a hash key prior to executing a hash function on the hash key and/or by manipulating outputs of a hash function. A device may be configured to manipulate hash keys and/or outputs using manipulation logic based on one or more predefined manipulation values. A simila...