ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,850, issued on March 17, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Dual software interfaces for multiplane devices to separate network management and communication traffic" was invented by Haggai Eran (Yokneam Ilit, Israel), Inbal Gal (Ramat Gan, Israel), Guy Rozenberg Kunievsky (Rehovot, Israel), Jason Gunthorpe (Bedford, Canada), Liran Liss (Atzmon-Segev, Israel) and Vladimir Koushnir (Rishon le Zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, communication system, and method are provided. In one example, a system for routing traffic is described that includes a network device. The network device includes...