ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,893, issued on July 14, was assigned to Achronix Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processing of ethernet packets at a programmable integrated circuit" was invented by Kent Orthner (Santa Clara, Calif.), Travis Johnson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Quinn Jacobson (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sarma Jonnavithula (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for processing Ethernet packets at a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). One programmable integrated circuit includes: an internal network on chip (iNOC) comprising rows and columns; clusters, coupled to the iNOC, comprising...