ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,385, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).
"Symmetrical control of hardware peripherals" was invented by Ayal Josef Lior (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Ortal Bashan (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes packet processing circuitry, one or more hardware peripherals, a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) and a Central Processing Unit (CPU). The packet processing circuitry is to communicate packets over a network. The BMC is to control the hardware peripherals. The CPU is to perform control-plane operations for communicating the packets by the packet processing...