ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,484, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Congestion notifications" was invented by Eran Gil Beracha (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Mey-Tal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tal Mund (Herzliya, Israel) and Ilya Vershkov (Rishon LeZion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided. In one example, a method is described that includes a first device receiving a congestion notification from a second device, wherein the congestion notification is addressed to a source node, and wherein the first device is between the second device and the source node. The method also includes pro...