USA Patent, fits Nvidia criteria, $4Trillion company could be knocking on enet door soon24 Feb 2026 08:52
Ethernity Networks (ENET), which has indeed been making waves with its recent patent wins. "fits"—Nvidia’s current dominance isn’t just about GPUs; it’s increasingly about the networking fabric (like InfiniBand and Spectrum-X) that connects them.
Here is the breakdown of why that specific patent is generating "takeover" chatter in investor circles:
The "Crown Jewel" Patent: Longest Prefix Match (LPM)
In late 2025 and early 2026, Ethernity was granted a major U.S. patent (No. 12,425,341) for a highly optimized Longest Prefix Matching (LPM) routing algorithm.
What it does: It allows for searching hundreds of thousands of IP routes in just a few clock cycles (as fast as 17 nanoseconds).