ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,414, issued on May 27, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Common-mode filtering for converting differential signaling to single-ended signaling" was invented by Shaowu Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dance Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface in a communications system includes a physical layer transceiver (PHY) for coupling to a wireline channel medium, and for coupling to a functional device via a single-ended cable. The PHY is an integrated circuit (IC) device having first and second differential input/output (I/O) conductors for coupling to the functional device, an impedance element con...