US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on March 24 for "Local port grouping with rails of network links" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,415, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Local port grouping with rails of network links" was invented by Lior Hodaya Bezen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alex Netes (Rehovot, Israel), Mark Hummel (Franklin, Mass.), Glenn Dearth (Groton, Mass.) and Lion Levi (Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein are for one or more processing units to communicate configuration information between a subnet manager (SM) and at least one switch, where the configuration information is to enable the at least one switch to provide communication between at least two host machines throug...