ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,576, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).
"Low complexity ethernet node (LEN) one port" was invented by Seamus Ryan (County Tipperary, Ireland) and Andrew David Alsup (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface module for coupling a host device to a switched network as a network node is described. The network interface module comprises a single half-duplex port for communicatively coupling to a shared bus of the switched network, at least one frame queue sized to store one multicast read frame received via the shared bus, and logic circuitry. The log...