ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,889, issued on May 5, was assigned to SILICONALLY GMBH (Dresden, Germany).

"Method and ethernet physical layer device for detecting, classifying and localizing cable faults of an ethernet physical cable, particularly an automotive ethernet PHY, using a time domain reflectometry algorithm" was invented by Dilip Kumar (Hamburg, Germany), Sebastian Hoppner (Dresden, Germany), Stephan Hartmann (Coswig, Germany) and Emrah Onat (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and ethernet physical layer device for detecting, classifying and localizing cable faults of an ethernet physical cable, particularly ...