ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,543, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Cache coherency" was invented by Yorai Itzhak Zack (Kiryat Ata, Israel), Gal Shalom (Givat-Avni, Israel), Aviad Shaul Yehezkel (Yokneam Ilit, Israel), Eliav Bar-Ilan (Or Akiva, Israel), Idan Zach (Givat Ela, Israel), Oren Duer (Kohav Yair, Israel), Vishwanath Venkatesan (Austin, Texas) and Omri Kahalon (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device includes a host interface to be connected to a host device via a data communication bus; and at least one processing core to expose a device emulation function to the host d...