ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,021, issued on May 5, was assigned to Airoha Technology Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Ethernet device that performs cable diagnosis by using IEEE 802.3 compliant waveform and associated ethernet cable diagnosis method" was invented by Chia-Hsing Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wei-Ling Li (Chiayi County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Ethernet device includes a link test pulse (LTP) generator circuit, a hybrid circuit, a transmit (TX) circuit, a receive (RX) circuit, and a post-processing circuit. The LTP generator circuit generates an LTP signal that is compliant with an IEEE 802.3 standard. The TX circuit transmits the L...