US Patent Issued to Altera on Feb. 24 for "Techniques for monitoring and control of high speed serial communication link" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,855, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for monitoring and control of high speed serial communication link" was invented by Hsinho Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Peng Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Masashi Shimanouchi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide apparatuses, systems, and methods to determine a figure of merit (FOM) of a communication link (e.g., a serial communication link, also referred to herein as a channel) between a transmitter and a receiver. The FOM may be used to, for example, determine a health of the communication link during mission mode (...