ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,666, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Scalable and configurable non-transparent bridges" was invented by Ariel Shahar (Jerusalem), Peter Paneah (Nesher, Israel), Vladimir Vainer (Kiryat Shmona, Israel) and Afek Bernhard (Tzur Hadassa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein are for a Non-Transparent Bridges (NTBs) that are scalable and configurable to use equally sized or spaced windows and a common lookup database for remapping writes without completions. The equally sized or spaced windows in the address space are addressable by a starting address and a size ...