US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on May 13 for "Protocol independent programmable switch (PIPS) for software defined data center networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,456, issued on May 13, was assigned to Marvell Asia PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Protocol independent programmable switch (PIPS) for software defined data center networks" was invented by Guy Townsend Hutchison (San Jose, Calif.), Sachin Ramesh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Tsahi Daniel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gerald Schmidt (San Jose, Calif.), Albert Fishman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Martin Leslie White (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Zubin Shah (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software-defined network (SDN) system, device and method comprise one or more input ports, a programmable parser, a plurality of programmable lookup and decision ...