ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,328, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hash-table lookup with controlled latency" was invented by Elazar Cohen (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to key-value lookups. A first index is calculated based on a first hash function and a received key. A first hash table including entries associated with a first hash calculation on a key is accessed. A collision hint table is accessed to identify any other hash table to search. If the collision hint table indicates any other table to search, the first hash table and the any other hash table are searched to ident...