ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,540, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Next Silicon Ltd (Givatayim, Israel).

"Event processing by hardware accelerator" was invented by Alexander Margolin (Ashdod, Israel), Menashe Daskal (Haifa, Israel) and Oren Nishry (Beit Lehem HaGlilit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware acceleration circuit, comprising a communication interface for connecting to one or more event-driven circuits, a memory, an event handling circuit, and a hardware acceleration engine. The event handling circuit is adapted to detect one or more events triggered by one or more of the event-driven circuits, update one or more pointers pointing to on...