US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on July 29 for "Bi-directional encryption/decryption device for underlay and overlay operations" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,464, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Bi-directional encryption/decryption device for underlay and overlay operations" was invented by Barak Gafni (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Liron Mula (Hertzlia, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for bi-directional encryption and decryption for underlay and overlay operations are described. One network device a path-selection circuit that operates in a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, the path-selection circuit receives a first incoming packet on a first port, sends it to a security circuitry to decrypt the first incoming p...