ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,994, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Time synchronized collective communication" was invented by Zsolt Alon Wertheimer (Haifa, Israel), Omer Shabtai (Tel Aviv, Israel), Barak Goldberg (Moshav Dishon, Israel), Lion Levi (Yavne, Israel), Gil Mey-Tal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Bar Or Shapira (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices that perform computing operations are provided. In one example, a system includes a least one node, the at least one node having one or more processors, each having associated memory,...