ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,294, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to JESS-LINK PRODUCTS Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Small form-factor pluggable transceiver" was invented by Chi-Hsien Sun (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hsu-Feng Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ching-Hung Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chieh-Ming Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small form-factor pluggable transceiver is coupled to a cable connector and a network device. The small form-factor pluggable transceiver includes a first connection port, a conversion unit, a transceiver unit, and a second connection port. The conversion unit includes a bandwidth indication pin, and the tra...