ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,019, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Retimers to extend a die-to-die interconnect" was invented by Debendra Das Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.), Swadesh Choudhary (Mountain View, Calif.), Sridhar Muthrasanallur (Bengaluru, India), Narasimha Lanka (Dublin, Calif.), Zuoguo Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Gerald Pasdast (San Jose, Calif.) and Lakshmipriya Seshan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retimer includes a first port to couple to a die over a first interconnect, where the first interconnect includes a defined set of lanes and utilizes a first communication technology, and the die is loca...