ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,104, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Shared cell support for telecommunications" was invented by Joseph Boccuzzi (Kingwood, Texas) and Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches in accordance with various embodiments enable communication functionality to be added to an existing hardware component, such as a network interface controller (NIC), data processing unit (DPA), or network switch, rather than requiring an additional component such as a Front Haul Multiplexor (FHM)-type for cellular communications. Such an approach not only avoids the cos...