ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,210, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Dual lookup and duplicate discard engine in a network device" was invented by Eran Blich (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ilan Yerushalmi (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Adar Peery (Aseret, Israel) and Yuval Peled (Kiryat Ono, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device is configured in receive regular packets and redundancy protocol packets via network interfaces of the network device. The network device includes a dual lookup and duplicate discard engine configured to, using one or more shared resources, selectively perform different lookup operation...