ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,894, issued on July 15, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Programmable core integrated with hardware pipeline of network interface device" was invented by Omri Kahalon (Yehud, Israel), Avi Urman (Yokneam, Israel), Ilan Pardo (Ramat-Hasharon, Israel), Omer Cohen (Yokneam-Ilit, Israel), Sayantan Sur (Cary, N.C.), Barak Biber (Haifa, Israel), Saar Tarnopolsky (Haifa, Israel) and Ariel Shahar (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a network packet into a hardware pipeline of a network device; parsing and retrieving information of the network packet; determining, by the hardware ...