ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,664, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Network communication apparatus with multiple host bus interfaces" was invented by Gal Shalom (Givat-Avni, Israel), Davide Rossetti (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vikramjit Sethi (Austin, Texas), Peter Paneah (Nesher, Israel), Jonathon Evans (Santa Clara, Calif.), Idan Borshteen (Akko, Israel) and Jason Gunthorpe (Bedford, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network communication apparatus for connection to a computer that includes a host processor, a host memory and at least first and second root ports. The apparatus includes a network port, for connection...