ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,491, issued on March 24, was assigned to Auradine Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network switch for interconnecting computing devices" was invented by Srinivas Gangam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ashwin Alapati (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Amit Srivastava (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system with a switching device is presented. The switching device includes first ports which interconnect first processing units in a first group using a first protocol and includes second ports which interconnect the first processing units with second processing units amongst second groups using the first protocol in conjunction with a se...