ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,044, issued on June 23, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Preserving pattern checking for data integrity across a single wider link and multiple narrower links" was invented by Zhiheng Liao (San Jose, Calif.), Jianghui Su (San Jose, Calif.), Xu Han (San Jose, Calif.) and Mo Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking integrity of data propagated, in either direction, between a first data link having a first data width and a first data speed, and a plurality of second data links each of which has a second data width narrower than the first width and a second data speed slower than the f...