US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on May 26 for "Methods and apparatus for forwarding packets in a mesh switching system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,961, issued on May 26, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus for forwarding packets in a mesh switching system" was invented by George Hervey (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first switching device in a switching system that includes a plurality of switching devices arranged in a partial mesh receives a packet directed to a second switching device in the switching system. The first switching device accesses a forwarding table to select a link via which to transmit the packet. The link is selected from among i) at least one destination link coupled to the first switching device...