ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,546, issued on June 17, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Partial video async support using R-MACPHY device" was invented by Yair Neugeboren (Netanya, Israel), Kevin Garvey (Cork, Ireland), Humphrey Looney (Cork, Ireland), Stephen Dunning (Cork, Ireland) and Chris Harrison (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing timing information from a R-MACHPHY device to a video core while the R-MACPHY device receives video data from the video core while operating in asynchronous mode. In some embodiments, the R-MACPHY device may alternately and selectively configure its mode of operatio...