ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,488, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Spread spectrum modulation over an asymmetric ethernet link" was invented by David Shen (Saratoga, Calif.), Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard (Belmont, Calif.) and William Chu (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive Ethernet physical-layer (PHY) transceiver includes an Analog Front End (AFE) and a digital processor. The AFE is coupled via a full-duplex Ethernet link to a peer transceiver. The AFE is configured to receive from the peer transceiver, over the full-duplex Ethernet link, an analog Ethernet signal conveying data symbols, at a recept...