US Patent Issued to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES on July 14 for "Probe packet congestion control" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,907, issued on July 14, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Probe packet congestion control" was invented by Eran Gil Beracha (Tel Aviv, Israel), Aviv Kfir (Nili, Israel), Liron Mula (Hertzliya, Israel) and Ilya Vershkov (Rishon LeZion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, computing devices, switches, network endpoints, and methods to handle probe packets. In at least one embodiment, probe packets are handled in a more time-efficient manner as compared to non-probe packets by identifying probe packets and directing probe packets to particular queues."

The patent was filed on Nov. 12,...