ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,969, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Data detection on serial communication links" was invented by Vishal Varma (Fremont, Calif.), Dhaval H. Shah (Newark, Calif.), Jose A. Tierno (Menlo Park, Calif.), Sanjeev K. Maheshwari (Fremont, Calif.) and Sumeet Gupta (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serial data receiver subsystem of a computer system includes a data rate detection circuit and a receiver circuit. The data rate detection circuit is configured to detect that a communication link operates in a high-speed mode rather than in a low-speed mode by detecting that a number of transit...