ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,145, issued on June 3, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and system for reconfigurable parallel lookups using multiple shared memories" was invented by Anh T. Tran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gerald Schmidt (San Jose, Calif.), Tsahi Daniel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Saurabh Shrivastava (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to multiple parallel lookups using a pool of shared memories by proper configuration of interconnection networks. The number of shared memories reserved for each lookup is reconfigurable based on the memory capacity needed by that lookup. The sh...