US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on June 2 for "Power saving in a network device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,203, issued on June 2, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Power saving in a network device" was invented by Kapil Vishwas Shrikhande (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller determines a time period corresponding to a medium access control (MAC) layer circuitry outputting data that corresponds to idle symbols, the data output by the MAC layer circuitry for transmission via a communication link. In response to determining the time period, at least some circuitry of the PHY circuitry goes into a low power mode during the time period, and the PHY circuitry outputs signals corresponding to the idle sym...