ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,249, issued on April 1, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Directional link credit-based packet transmission" was invented by Joseph Featherston (Boston) and Aadeetya Shreedhar (Natick, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit and corresponding method employ directional link (DL) credit pools. The circuit comprises the DL credit pools and transmit (TX) port logic. The DL credit pools are associated with neighboring node (NBN) TX ports of a NBN on a chip. The NBN is coupled to a node on the chip via the circuit. The node includes the circuit. The TX port logic admits a received packet to the circuit based on rout...