US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Sept. 30 for "MACsec architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,154, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"MACsec architecture" was invented by William Brad Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.), Meg Lin (Saratoga, Calif.) and Puneet Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Media Access Control Security (MACsec) core architecture implements flow control and bandwidth management when bandwidth is expanded internally due to encryption overhead and packet injection. External flow control requests are merged with internal flow control states and sent to a connected host."

The patent was filed on Sept. 18, 2022, under Application No. 17/947,150.

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