US Patent Issued to ATI Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices on April 29 for "Alternative protocol over physical layer" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,753, issued on April 29, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Alternative protocol over physical layer" was invented by Gordon Caruk (Brampton, Canada), Maurice B. Steinman (Marlborough, Mass.), Gerald R. Talbot (Concord, Mass.) and Joseph D. Macri (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A link controller includes a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) physical layer circuit for coupling to a communication link and providing a data path over the communication link, a first data link layer controller which operates according to a PCIe protocol, a...