ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,773, issued on Sept. 8.

"PCI express to PCI express based low latency interconnect scheme for clustering systems" was invented by Mammen Thomas (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "PCI Express (PCIE) is an IO interconnect standard that is implemented as a tree network with a root complex connecting to a CPU as the root node for use inside the computer for connecting to peripheral devices. Currently PCIE has achieved stability such that PCIE can be used as a basis for other applications. A PCIE based scheme inter-connecting multiple PCIE enabled computer systems each having at least one PCIE root complex controlling at least a PCIE...