ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,672, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Link layer-PHY interface adapter" was invented by Narasimha Lanka (Dublin, Calif.), Swadesh Choudhary (Mountain View, Calif.), Mahesh Wagh (Portland, Ore.) and Lakshmipriya Seshan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter is provided that includes a first interface to couple to a particular device, where link layer data is to be communicated over the first interface, and a second interface to couple to a physical layer (PHY) device. The PHY device includes wires to implement a physical layer of a link, and the link couples the adapter to an...