US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Dec. 2 for "In-network compute operation spreading" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,657, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"In-network compute operation spreading" was invented by Yishai Oltchik (Givatayim, Israel), Anton Korzh (Eagle, Idaho), Gil Bloch (Zichron Yaakov, Israel) and Itamar Rabenstein (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a network switch device includes a network interface to receive vectors from endpoint devices, and an aggregation and reduction accelerator to perform elementwise and vector splitting operations with the vectors as input yielding at least two intermediate vector results, wherein the network interface is to...