ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,970, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Methods and systems for limiting data traffic while processing computer system operations" was invented by Yamin Friedman (Haifa, Israel), Idan Burstein (Akko, Israel), Hillel Chapman (Ramat Hashofet, Israel) and Gal Yefet (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for limiting unnecessary data traffic on the data busses connecting the various levels of system memory. Some embodiments may include processing an invalidation command associated with a system or network operation requiring temporary storage of data i...