ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,790, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, method and apparatus for link training during a clock switch event" was invented by Ehud Shoor (Haifa, Israel), Tsion Vidal (Bet Rimmon, Israel), Uri Hermoni (Nordia, Israel), Efraim Kugman (Givat Zeev, Israel), Sarel Wechsler (Sapor, Israel), Oren Salomon (Nahariya, Israel) and Golan Cohen (Even-Yehuda, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a receiver to receive training data from a transmitter; a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit coupled to the receiver, the CDR circuit to recover a recovered clock signal...