US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Nov. 3 for "Cooperative time-division duplexing using pre-alert signaling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,838, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Cooperative time-division duplexing using pre-alert signaling" was invented by Ragnar Hlynur Jonsson (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical layer (PHY) device, for use in an Ethernet network, includes a cable interface, a transmitter, a receiver and a processor. The cable interface connects to an Ethernet link for communicating with a peer PHY device. The transmitter transmits outbound signals that carry outbound data to the peer PHY device over the Ethernet link. The receiver receives in...