ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,110, issued on July 29, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Ethernet physical layer transceiver with graceful temperature protection" was invented by David Shen (Saratoga, Calif.) and Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Physical Layer (PHY) transceiver includes communication circuitry and a controller. The communication circuitry includes a digital filter, and is configured to communicate signals using the digital filter over a network link. The controller is configured to monitor a temperature pertaining to the communication circuitry, and, in response to detecting an actual ...