ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,070, issued on March 17, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Prune policies" was invented by Amir Rosen (Haifa, Israel), Shie Mannor (Haifa, Israel), Sagi Lahav (Kiryat Bialik, Israel), Gil Levy (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Ariel Szapiro (Kfar Netter, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data of a set of configurations of preprocessor engines, receiving measurements of performance of a device executing benchmark applications while changing a configuration of preprocessor engines selected from the set of configurations of preprocessor engines, defining an order o...