ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,503, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Pensando Systems Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method to perform hash table lookup for keys wider than data path size" was invented by Kit Chiu Chu (Freemont, Calif.) and Alex Seibulescu (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are input output (IO) device configured to perform operations for performing a table lookup with a single wide key larger than a width of a system bus. These operations comprise: receiving the lookup key; performing a plurality of extraction cycles to determine a plurality of key fragments; calculating a final hash value for the lookup key by sequentially ...