ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,840, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Alleviating memory-access congestion in network devices" was invented by Michael Weiner (Nes Ziona, Israel), Amit Hermony (Givat-Ada, Israel), Avi Urman (Yokneam, Israel), Idan Burstein (Carmiel, Israel) and Yuval Shpigelman (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes one or more ports, processing circuitry, and a memory-network congestion controller. The one or more ports are to connect to a network. The processing circuitry is to run a plurality of processing tasks that access a shared memory, one or more of the proce...