ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,859, issued on March 17, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Optimizing hash table selection" was invented by Gil Levy (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Pedro Reviriego (Madrid), Gonzalo Martinez (Madrid) and Jose Alberto Hernandez-Gutierrez (Fuenlabrada, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network devices, systems, and methods are provided. In one example, a network device includes one or more packet classification circuits and one or more hash selection circuits that cooperate with the one or more packet classification circuits to provide the one or more packet classification circuits with a hash table selection ...