ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,373, issued on June 2, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Real-time, time aware, dynamic, context aware and reconfigurable ethernet packet classification" was invented by Thomas Anton Leyrer (Geisenhausen, Germany), William Cronin Wallace (Richardson, Texas) and Pratheesh Gangadhar Thalakkal Kottilaveedu (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultra-high speed electronic communications device includes: a network communications interface; a memory; and one or more processing units, communicatively coupled to the memory and the network communications interface, wherein the memory stores instructions configured...