US Patent Issued to Intel on April 14 for "Tunneling USB2 data using USB4-based configurations" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,347, issued on April 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tunneling USB2 data using USB4-based configurations" was invented by Aruni Nelson (Folsom, Calif.), Abdul Ismail (Beaverton, Ore.), Saranya Gopal (Bangalore, India) and Rajaram Regupathy (Bellandur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Universal Serial Bus 4 (USB4) host system for tunneling USB2 data includes a USB controller and a first routing circuit communicatively coupled to the USB controller. The first routing circuit is to configure a downstream tunneled path between the USB controller and a second routing circuit. The first routing circuit is fur...