ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,161, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Time-based synchronization descriptors" was invented by Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Daniel Marcovitch (Yokneam Illit, Israel), Natan Manevich (Migdal HaEmek, Israel), Wojciech Wasko (Pomeranian, Poland) and Igor Voks (Kfar Yehoshua, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes a peripheral device including a hardware clock, and processing circuitry to read a given work request entry stored with a plurality of work request entries in at least one work queue in a memory, the given work request entry includi...