US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Data plane separation in networks to reuse virtual network addresses" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,512, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokenam, Israel).

"Data plane separation in networks to reuse virtual network addresses" was invented by Lior Hodaya Bezen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alex Netes (Rehovot, Israel), Idan Seider (Haifa, Israel), Lion Levi (Yavne, Israel), Glenn Dearth (Groton, Mass.), Nitin Hande (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mark Hummel (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein are for one or more processing units that can communicate in a network using a subnet manager (SM) that includes a mapping of one virtual network address to two or more physical ports, where ...