ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,375, issued on July 29, was assigned to FARADAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Link down detector and link down detecting method for ethernet" was invented by Po-Hsuan Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), I-Chuan Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shih-Yi Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A link down detector and a link down detecting method for Ethernet are provided. The link down detecting method includes the following steps. Firstly, a received signal is received, and a high-frequency band signal is extracted from the received signal. Consequently, the high-frequency band signal is formed as an extraction signal. Then, a high-f...