US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Nov. 11 for "Out-of-band based independent link training of in-band links between host devices and optical modules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,315, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Out-of-band based independent link training of in-band links between host devices and optical modules" was invented by Whay Sing Lee (Milpitas, Calif.) and Todd Rope (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first optical module includes an optical transceiver and a chip. The optical transceiver, subsequent to completion of link training of an in-band transmission link between the first optical module and a host device, waits for a second optical module to come up including transmitting a first awake signal from the first optical module to the se...