US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on April 22 for "Flow/application-based packet marking by network-adapter" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,120, issued on April 22, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Flow/application-based packet marking by network-adapter" was invented by Ortal Bashan (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yaki Tebeka (Kfar Monash, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network adapter includes a host interface, a network interface, a packet processor, and a telemetry handler. The host interface is to communicate with a host. The network interface is to send packets to a network. The packet processor is to process the packets prior to sending the packets to the network. The telemetry handler is to receive from the host, over the host interfac...