ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,490, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and link configuring method" was invented by Jaeho Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunho Ki (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wangseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor device that includes a plurality of ports and a PCIe controller. The PCIe controller includes: a link training and status state machine (LTSSM) configured to perform a link-up by configuring a plurality of lanes on the plurality of ports, and a memory storing a first preset as a reference value, the first pres...