US Patent Issued to Intel on July 14 for "Alternate physical layer power mode" (California, Oregon, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,554, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Alternate physical layer power mode" was invented by Michelle C. Jen (Mountain View, Calif.), David J. Harriman (Portland, Ore.), Zuoguo Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Debendra Das Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.) and Noam Dolev Geldbard (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes physical layer (PHY) circuitry including a physical coding sublayer, where the PHY circuitry is configured to alternatively support at least two different power control settings. The device further includes an interface to couple the PHY circuitry to a media access control (MAC) laye...