ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,754, issued on June 30, was assigned to SILICONALLY GMBH (Dresden, Germany).
"Multi-mode line driver circuit for the physical layer of a network connection, particularly of an ethernet communication, supporting different signal levels for different communication standards" was invented by Franz Marcus Schueffny (Dresden, Germany), Stefan Haenzsche (Dresden, Germany), Sebastian Hoeppner (Dresden, Germany) and Martin Kreissig (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-mode line driver circuit supporting different communication standards includes an output for the network connection, and driver elements connected in parall...