ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,072, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Israel).

"Data shuffle offload" was invented by Daniel Marcovitch (Yokneam Illit, Israel), Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Eyal Srebro (Kfar Yehoshua, Israel), Eliel Peretz (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Roee Moyal (Yokneam Illit, Israel), Richard Graham (Knoxville, Tenn.), Gil Bloch (Zichron Ya'acov, Israel) and Sean Pieper (Waldport, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems are provided. In one example, a device is described to include a device interface that receives data from at least one data source; a data shuffle unit that collec...