ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,611, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Traffic controller circuit" was invented by Avigdor Segal (Netanya, Israel), Jonathan Cohen (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Barak Singer (Saratoga, Calif.), Alon Hochman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Anna Rom-Saksonov (Rosh Haayin, Israel) and Tomer Malach (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic controller (TC) circuit monitors an ingress stream being fed to an integrated circuit (IC) component comprising the TC circuit, wherein the IC component is part of a processing pipeline of a computing device. The TC circuit controls input traffic on the ingress str...