US Patent Issued on Aug. 25 for "Range slots for deterministic finite automatons in a regular expression accelerator" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,845, issued on Aug. 25.

"Range slots for deterministic finite automatons in a regular expression accelerator" was invented by Edward Leo Wimmers (San Jose, Calif.), Renat Idrisov (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ashwin Subramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Scot Swartzendruber (Austin, Texas) and Eric Ronald Weisman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing range slots for deterministic finite automatons (DFAs) in a regular expression (regex) accelerator are provided. A method includes compiling a set of regular expression patterns to generate an output file, where the output file comprises information...