ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,840, issued on May 12, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Interface device and method of operating the same" was invented by Dae Sik Park (Icheon-si, South Korea), Byung Cheol Kang (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Seung Duk Cho (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an interface device including a first elastic buffer is provided. The method of operating the interface device includes performing a link equalization operation, checking a transmission mode of the interface device, and determining a transmission parameter of the interface device based on a status of the first elastic...