ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,092, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Sequential event tracker with loose access atomicity" was invented by Yuval Shicht (Tel Aviv, Israel), Miriam Menes (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ariel Shahar (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a cache to store an array that tracks occurrence of events and a processing device coupled to the cache. The processing device tracks control values associated with a state of cache lines of the array. The processing device tracks, within the cache lines, a window of cell index values corresponding to event identifier values and having a wind...