ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,503, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rockport Networks Inc. (Canada).
"Deadlock-free multipath routing for direct interconnect networks" was invented by Evandro de Souza (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of routing for direct interconnect networks which generates multiple edge-disjoint paths between all source and destination nodes, while providing deadlock-free routing. The method requires limited use of virtual layers, which makes it suitable for less complex and more energy efficient hardware devices, and inter-layer edge-disjointedness is preferably integrated, which improves the throughput capacity of m...