ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,954, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for relaying a message for a physical level/data link level communication protocol" was invented by Wai-Shun Shum (Austin, Texas), Amar Vellanki (Cedar Park, Texas), Jeffrey Skarzynski (Austin, Texas), Gautham S. Sivasankar (Austin, Texas), Xingdong Dai (Austin, Texas), Venugopal Choukinishi (Austin, Texas), Xiaofan Fei (Austin, Texas) and Xin Zhao (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for relaying communication for a PHY/data link level communication protocol may include a first device having a first and second transceive...