ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,817, issued on June 17, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Automotive network switch with attack protection" was invented by Xiongzhi Ning (Karlsruhe, Germany), Markus Althoff (Achern, Germany), Biing Long Shu (Singapore), Steffen Dolling (Ditzingen, Germany), Sudong Yu (Singapore) and Thomas Kniplitsch (Insheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch, for use in an Ethernet network in a vehicle, includes multiple ports, a switch unit, a peripheral bus, multiple DMA engines and a mapping engine. The ports connect to the Ethernet network. The switch unit forwards packets s among the ports. The peripher...