US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on April 22 for "Network device with programmable action processing" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,775, issued on April 22, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Network device with programmable action processing" was invented by Ariel Shahar (Jerusalem), Avi Urman (Yokneam, Israel), Omri Kahalon (Yehud, Israel), Uria Basher (Nehusha, Israel), Doron Haim (Herzliya, Israel) and Sagi Farjun (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes one or more ports, match-action circuitry, and an action processor. The one or more ports are to exchange packets between the network device and a network. The match-action circuitry is to match at least some of the packets to one or more rules so as t...