ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,415, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Analog Bits Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Four wire high speed communication systems" was invented by Alan C. Rogers (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Michael A. Ang (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high speed but power-efficient electronic communications protocol may comprise dual simplex links, each operating in a differential high-speed mode and each capable of a low-speed signaling mode. When both links operate in high speed mode, signaling is performed in-band, with signals embedded as metadata attached to transmitted packets. When one of the links is put into a low-power mode, the retur...