ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,074, issued on May 20, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Ethernet pause aggregation for a relay device" was invented by Liron Mula (Hertzlia, Israel), Zachy Haramaty (Hemed, Israel), Shachar Bar Tikva (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Dekel Dadon (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay device is provided that may identify a quantity of empty data byte locations in a data buffer of the relay device. The relay device may receive an indicator associated with transmitting data packets. The relay device may pause or enable a lossless flow of data between the relay device, a host device, and a peer de...