US Patent Issued to Innovium on Dec. 9 for "Handling interface clock rate mismatches between network devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,943, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Innovium Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Handling interface clock rate mismatches between network devices" was invented by Kapil Vishwas Shrikhande (Santa Clara, Calif.), William Brad Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Meg Pei Lin (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The performance of a switch or other network device is improved by adjusting the number of idle bytes transmitted between data units-that is, the size of the interpacket gap-to increase the bandwidth of a network interface. In some embodiments, the adjustments may be made in a manner designed to compensate for potential mismat...