ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,798, issued on April 15, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Cable assembly with protection switching" was invented by Whay Sing Lee (Milpitas, Calif.) and Arash Farhoodfar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable assembly includes connectors and protection switching circuitry. A first connector connects the cable assembly to a first switch, which has a first network path to a first host device. A second connector connects the cable assembly to a second switch, which has a second network path to the first host device. A third connector is connected to the first and second connectors via respectively a f...