ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,137, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Software-hardware interface protection" was invented by Moni Levy (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Sagi Rotem (Adi, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a software and hardware development method include providing a software-hardware interface to provide a data interface between hardware of an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and software running on a processor, providing control of a given part of the software-hardware interface to a software feature thereby yielding a more stable software-hardware interface, receiving a...