US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on June 23 for "Application accelerator" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,007, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Application accelerator" was invented by Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Assaf Weissman (Moreshet, Israel), Kobi Pines (Yahad, Israel), Noam Bloch (Bat Shlomo, Israel), Erez Yaacov (Kibbutz Sarid, Israel) and Ariel Naftali Cohen (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for video encoding includes an acceleration device, to select from a video stream a target video frame and one or more reference frames. The target and reference frames are divided into respective first pluralities of first blocks of a first size and...