ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,306, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Extension of isochronous channels for regular asynchronous connection link transactions" was invented by Hasan Ali Stationwala (Hyderabad, India), Ayan Ghosh (Hyderabad, India), Srinivasa Reddy Konatham (Hyderabad, India), Sandeep Voruganti (Hyderabad, India) and Raghu Ram Sista (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An isochronous channel extension technique transmits asynchronous data using an isochronous channel to reduce or eliminate latency of asynchronous data transfers when asynchronous events and isochronous events with the same peer...