US Patent Issued to MARVELL ASIA on Nov. 3 for "Compatability between energy efficient protocols" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,996, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Compatability between energy efficient protocols" was invented by Hon Wai Fung (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by a microcontroller unit, for managing power consumption of a physical layer transceiver includes receiving a state change instruction indicative of an intent to change the physical layer transceiver from operating under a first energy-saving protocol to operating under a second energy-saving protocol. The method further includes determining whether the first energy-saving protocol is an Energy-Efficient Ethernet prot...