ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,401, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Efficient and flexible flow inspector" was invented by Chen Rozenbaum (Beer Yakov, Israel), Shaul Arazi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shahaf Shuler (Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, Israel) and Gary Mataev (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a data communication device includes a network interface controller to process packets received from at least one of a host device for sending over a network, and at least one remote device over the network, at least one processor to execute computer instructions to receive a configuration, and extra...