US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 27 for "Logical physical layer interface specification support for PCIE 6.0, CXL 3.0, and UPI 3.0 protocols" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,566, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Logical physical layer interface specification support for PCIE 6.0, CXL 3.0, and UPI 3.0 protocols" was invented by Swadesh Choudhary (Mountain View, Calif.), Mahesh Wagh (Portland, Ore.) and Debendra Das Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a first link layer circuit to perform link layer functionality for a first communication protocol; and a logical physical (logPHY) circuit coupled to the first link layer circuit via a logical PHY interface (LPIF) link, the logPHY circuit to communicate with th...