ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,486, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Packet sequencing" was invented by Boris Pismenny (Lausanne, Switzerland), Liran Liss (Atzmon-Segev, Israel), Omri Kahalon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Eliav Bar-Ilan (Or Akiva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accelerator device and system are described, among other things. An illustrative system is disclosed to include a first sequencer programmed to append packets with information identifying a sequence number and an identification of a flow with which each packet is associated. The appended information may be used by a second sequencer to res...