US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Feb. 4 for "Power saving in a network device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,518, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Power saving in a network device" was invented by Ashwin Alapati (San Jose, Calif.), Ajit Jain (Milpitas, Calif.) and Srinivas Gangam (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first component of a network device determines that the first component is to provide packet data to a second component of the network device for processing by the second component. In connection with determining that the first component is to provide packet data to the second component of the network device, the first component prompts the second component to activate a clock net...