ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,679, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for avoiding retraining a communication bus after a link failure" was invented by Ravindranath Doddi (Hyderabad, India), Ramacharan Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.) and Umamaheshwaran V (Salem, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for avoiding retraining a communication bus after a link failure are disclosed. In particular, in a communication bus that retrains a main band on failure of a sideband, aspects of the present disclosure contemplate using a redundant sideband to keep the bus active and avoid retraining the main band wh...