ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,044, issued on March 3, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Inter-plane access" was invented by Yoav Menes (Tel Aviv, Israel), Guy Rozenberg Kunievsky (Rehovot, Israel), Daniel Klein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Vladimir Koushnir (Rishon Le Zion, Israel), Michael Avimelech Gandelman Milgrom (Aventura, Fla.), Eitan Zahavi (Zichron Yaakov, Israel) and Matty Kadosh (Hedera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device, communication system, and method are provided. In one example, a network device is described that includes a plurality of switching elements, each switching element in the plurality of switchin...