ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,805, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Systems and methods of packet classification using artificial intelligence" was invented by Ran Sandhaus (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gil Levy (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device, system-on-a-chip, and method of performing packet handling are described. A packet is received, and a lookup based on one or more packet header fields of the packet is performed using a lookup generator action handler. An artificial intelligence engine processes packet header data associated with the packet, and a smart indication is generated....