ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,956, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"System for optimized data communication in hierarchical networks" was invented by Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas (Piraeus, Greece), Zsolt-Alon Wertheimer (Kiryat Ata, Israel), Nikolaos Terzenidis (Kilkis, Greece), Dimitrios Syrivelis (Volos, Greece), Eitan Zahavi (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Paraskevas Bakopoulos (Ilion, Greece) and Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described for data communication. In an example, a data distribution task with execution parameters that inclu...