ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,593, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for packet reordering and aggregation" was invented by Liyan Ying (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Marleson Graf (Brusque, Brazil) and Kunal Chhabriya (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate generally to data communications, and more particularly to methods and apparatuses for packet reordering and aggregation. One or more embodiments relate to a solution in which transaction layer reordering is made aware of IDE aggregation requirements. For example, PCIe packets are reordered to minimize th...