US Patent Issued to Intel on March 3 for "Optical and electrical modules with enhanced features" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,919, issued on March 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optical and electrical modules with enhanced features" was invented by Daniel Christian Biederman (Saratoga, Calif.), Pat Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Bordogna (Andover, Mass.), Raghuram Narayan (Newark, Calif.) and Renuka Sapkal (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical and electrical modules with enhanced features and associated apparatus and methods. The optical modules are configured to implement one or more features that are offloaded from Ethernet devices to which the optical modules are configured to be attached. The features include su...