ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,139, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Sleep and wakeup signaling for ethernet" was invented by Ming-Tak Leung (Irvine, Calif.), Bizhan Abedinzadeh (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Hon Wai Fung (Newark, Calif.), Liang Zhu (Shanghai) and Der-Ren Chu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device generates an Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) frame that includes i) OAM message content and ii) an OAM frame header outside of the OAM message content, wherein generating the OAM frame comprises generating the OAM frame header to include information that signals one of i...