ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,351, issued on May 13, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Flowlet scheduler for multicore network processors" was invented by Leonid Rozenboim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of using a packet order work scheduler (POWS) to assign packets to a set of scheduler queues for supplying packets to parallel processing units. A processing unit and the associated scheduler queue are dedicated to a specific flow until a queue-reallocation event, which may correspond to the associated scheduler queue being idle for at least a certain interval as indicated by its age counter, or the queue bei...