US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 7 for "Symbol multiplexing physical medium attachment (PMA)" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,755, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Symbol multiplexing physical medium attachment (PMA)" was invented by Adee Ran (Maayan Baruch, Israel), Mark A. Gustlin (Campbell, Calif.) and Aviran Kadosh (Moreshet, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Symbol multiplexing Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) may be provided. A plurality of first lanes may be received and then Alignment Markers (AMs) from the plurality of first lanes may be used to determine symbol boundaries and identify the plurality of first lanes. Next, groups of the plurality of first lanes may be de-skewed and checkerboard patterns in the plurality of...