ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,731, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Robust link synchronization in ethernet networks" was invented by Xing Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shaoan Dai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network interface device receives a first synchronization signal transmitted by a second network interface device via a communication link. The first synchronization signal is for synchronizing the first network interface device and the second network interface device via the communication link. In response to detecting the first synchronization signal from the second network interface device, the...