US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 4 for "System, method, apparatus and architecture for dynamically configuring device fabrics" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,878, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, method, apparatus and architecture for dynamically configuring device fabrics" was invented by Lakshminarayana Pappu (Folsom, Calif.), David J. Harriman (Portland, Ore.), Ramadass Nagarajan (Portland, Ore.) and Mahesh S. Natu (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device includes: an interface circuit to couple the device to a host via a link, where in a first mode the interface circuit is to be configured as an integrated switch controller and in a second mode the interface circuit is to be configured as a link controller; ...