ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,056, issued on June 17, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Energy efficient ethernet (EEE) operation" was invented by Ragnar Hlynur Jonsson (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Brian Edem (Saratoga, Calif.), Brett Anthony McClellan (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard (Belmont, Calif.), Xing Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and George Zimmerman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface device operates in a normal transmit operating mode in which the network interface device continually receives transmission symbols from a link partner via the communication link. The network interface device d...