US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on March 3 for "Managing power state at a physical layer" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,989, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Managing power state at a physical layer" was invented by William T. Baggett (Austin, Texas) and Venkatraman Iyer (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a physical layer device, a detection circuitry and a power control circuitry. the physical layer device provides one or more functions of a physical layer to interface with a shared physical transmission medium. The detection circuitry detects an indication of power control signaling on the shared physical transmission medium, and detects an indication of Ethernet sig...