ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,038, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Alternate protocol negotiation in a high performance interconnect" was invented by Debendra Das Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A port of a computing device is to communicate with another device over a link, the port including physical layer logic of a first protocol, link layer logic of each of a plurality of different protocols, and protocol negotiation logic to determine which of the plurality of different protocols to apply on the link. The protocol negotiation logic is to send and receive ordered sets in a configuration state of a l...