ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,615, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Link negotiation system, method, and device" was invented by Wei Pan (Shenzhen, China), Pingyu Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Junping Luo (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A link negotiation system includes a second device that determines a link configuration policy based on a status of a receiver of an interface of the second device, where the link configuration policy indicates an association relationship between a unidirectional logical lane and a unidirectional physical lane in a high-speed serial link between a first device and the ...