ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,789, issued on March 17, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Media access control (MAC) to physical coding sublayer (PCS) data rate synchronization circuitry" was invented by Denis Georgievich Poverennyy (Aschheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a MAC layer and a PCS in communication with the MAC layer via a transmit data path. The transmit data path includes a data request signal transmitted from the PCS to the MAC layer and a data valid signal transmitted from the MAC layer to the PCS. A SYNC pipeline of the PCS generates a copy of the data valid signal that has a same timing as the data v...