US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on Sept. 9 for "Soft disconnect and reconnect for USB tunneled path" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,787, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Soft disconnect and reconnect for USB tunneled path" was invented by Zeeshan Sarwar (Folsom, Calif.) and Preetesh Mahendra (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a Universal Serial Bus (USB) host system includes: disabling, by a USB host driver of the USB host system, a first tunneled path between a first port of a USB host controller of the USB host system and a first port of a USB device controller of a USB device, where the first tunneled path is configured to, through protocol tunneling, transmit first data p...