ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,482, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Doubly-balanced auto-zero LFPS and squelch detection" was invented by Hongjiang Song (Mesa, Ariz.), Mingming Xu (Phoenix) and Vijayalakshmi Ramachandran (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for low frequency periodic signaling (LFPS) and/or squelch detection are provided. A circuit can include a threshold generator situated to receive a differential input signal from an initiator device and generate a differential voltage threshold signal based on the differential input signal, an amplifier circuit electrically coup...