ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,691, issued on June 23, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Link training with multiple hops" was invented by Michael Takefman (Nepean, Canada) and Whay Sing Lee (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first intermediate network device among one or more intermediate network devices performs link training on a first network link extending between the first intermediate network device and a first host network device. The first intermediate network device or a second intermediate network device among the one or more intermediate network devices performs link training on a second network link extending between t...