US Patent Issued to MARVELL ASIA on Dec. 16 for "Setup and training of links between host devices and optical modules including menu-based and multi-stage link training" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,668, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Setup and training of links between host devices and optical modules including menu-based and multi-stage link training" was invented by Todd Rope (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ali Ghiasi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Whay Sing Lee (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host device includes a transmitter, an out-of-band electrical interface and a processor. The transmitter transmits in-band signals on an in-band electrical interface from the host device to an optical module. The in-band signals are data signals transmitted to test a link between the host devi...