ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,852, issued on April 14, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Packet forwarding system and associated packet forwarding method" was invented by Heng-Xiu Liu (HsinChu, Taiwan), Chen-Feng Kuo (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Lun-Wu Yeh (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a packet forwarding system including a packet, a packet analyzer and a DMA module. The packet buffer is configured to receive a packet and store the packet. The packet analyzer is configured to read the packet from the packet buffer, and analyze the packet to extract part of content of the packet to generate s...