ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,708, issued on April 22, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Method for selection between fast retrain procedures" was invented by Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard (Belmont, Calif.) and Ehab Tahir (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A link between a PHY device and a link partner is established by performing link training. If the link becomes at least partially inoperable, a first fast retrain technique is executed. A signature indicating that the first fast retrain technique successfully began but failed during execution before completion of the first fast retrain technique is received at the PHY device. In ...