ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,903, issued on April 21, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System of network switches" was invented by Rajeev Roy (Den Bosch, Netherlands), Bernard Francois St-Denis (Ottawa) and Stefan Singer (Vaterstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising: a first and second network switch each comprising a plurality of ports for coupling to one or more devices; wherein the first and second network switches are communicably coupled; wherein the first network switch, based on receipt of a network frame at its ports, is configured to: process the network frame based on its content and a first rule set to d...