US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus to dynamically disable Ethernet ports during system power on" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,910, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to dynamically disable Ethernet ports during system power on" was invented by Chia-yi Chien (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During system power-on, Ethernet controllers in a server are initialized and configured by a Power-On-Reset (POR) mechanism. A user-defined time period can be selected to delay configuration of an Ethernet link to allow sufficient time for completion of the initialization of the Ethernet controller for post-boot operation. After configuration of an Ethernet PHY in the Ethernet controller is complete, an ...