US Patent Issued to Fortinet on May 12 for "Hardware acceleration device for string matching and range comparison" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,893, issued on May 12, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hardware acceleration device for string matching and range comparison" was invented by Zhi Guo (San Jose, Calif.) and Xu Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for providing effective hardware acceleration by performing a combination of string matching and range comparison. According to one embodiment, acceleration device of a host device associated with datacenter receives an input stream of information. The received information is matched with contents of a hash-based lookup table to identify one or more units,...