ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,774, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Credo Technology Group Ltd. (Cayman Islands).

"Adaptive retimer with bypass" was invented by Kyungjin Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Alex Nazari (San Francisco), Arshan Aga (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yu Fen Lin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various adaptive retiming methods and apparatuses. One illustrative retimer apparatus takes the form of an integrated circuit having: at least one input contact configured to receive an input PCIe signal; a retimer module configured to convert the input PCIe signal into a digital symbol stream, and further configured to convert the digital symbol s...