ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,850, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ethernovia Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data processing and transmission using hardware serialization and deserialization functions" was invented by Brian Arnold Petersen (San Francisco), Joseph Andonieh (Aurora, Canada) and Roy T. Myers Jr. (Morgan City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein support or provide for data processing and data transmission using hardware serialization and hardware deserialization functions, such as receiving structured data from a software application, using the data communication hardware to perform operations including: serializi...