ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,271, issued on April 14, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Non-blocking ring exchange algorithm" was invented by Richard Leigh Graham (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for performing computing operations are provided. In one example, a system is described to include an endpoint that belongs to a collective, where the endpoint receives a Send Ready Notification (SRN) message from another endpoint in the collective and conditions a response to the SRN message based on whether the collective has begun an operation. For example, when the collective has not begun t...