ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,211, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Interleaved exact-match lookup table for multiple packet processing applications in a network device" was invented by Rami Zemach (Givat Shapira, Israel) and Itay Peled (Hagor, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search engine of a network device performs a lookup based on packet information associated with a packet being processed using a plurality of packet processing applications. The lookup includes one or more accesses to a lookup table that includes a plurality of interleaved entries associated with different ones of the packet proce...