ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,567, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Credo Technology Group Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"SerDes method and device having a protocol-agnostic in-band management channel" was invented by Ashwin Upadhya (Fremont, Calif.), Haoli Qian (Fremont, Calif.) and Fang Cai (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In-band communication methods and transceivers are provided to enable protocol-agnostic management channel. One illustrative in-band communications method includes: buffering an outbound data stream from a host-side receiver with a data stream buffer, the outbound data stream having a first bit rate; and providing a l...