ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,916, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Notification-based load balancing in a network" was invented by Rami Zemach (Givat Shapira, Israel), Avin Faldu (Rajkot, India), Adar Peery (Aseret, Israel), David Melman (Halutz, Israel) and Itay Peled (Hagor, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a network switching system that comprises a plurality of interconnected network devices, a first network device transmits one or more first packets via a first network interface of the first network device, the one or more first packets belonging to a packet flow. The first network device receives ...