US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Virtual wire protocol for transmitting side band channels" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,604, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Virtual wire protocol for transmitting side band channels" was invented by Rui Xu (Marlborough, Mass.), Mark Rosenbluth (Uxbridge, Mass.), Diane Orf (Natick, Mass.), Michael Cotsford (Medway, Mass.) and Shreya Tekade (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual wire system includes a source device, a target device, and a mesh interface connecting the source device and the target device. One or more mesh messages are transmitted over the mesh interface from the source device to the target device, and the one or more mesh messages indica...