ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,520, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Ill.).

"Real-time performance optimization of a packet network" was invented by Xiaoqi Ding (Shanghai), Wei Cheng (Beijing) and Hong Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system (20) includes a plurality of Network Interface Controllers (NICs) (32) and one or more processors (28, 62, 64). The plurality of NICs are to connect multiple hosts to a communication network, the NICs supporting a configurable Congestion Control (CC) scheme (80) selected from among multiple CC schemes. The one or more processors are coupled to the communication ...