US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on July 29 for "Combined congestion control and load balancing" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,407, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Combined congestion control and load balancing" was invented by Yamin Friedman (Jerusalem), Omer Shabtai (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yuval Shpigelman (Netanya, Israel) and Rotem Levinson (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for optimizing the spreading of traffic across multiple local output ports while considering both local load and end-to-end (E2E) load are described. One device has multiple outgoing ports and a network adapter that determines, for a first flow of packets, a first end-to-end (E2E) congestion rate of at least some o...