ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,036, issued on June 17, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for link transition in universal serial bus and system thereof" was invented by Yu-Cheng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Chieh Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for link transitions in a Universal Serial Bus system includes transmitting a plurality of first RS-FEC blocks by a first transmitter of the USB system, transmitting a training sequence by a second transmitter of the USB system, determining number of sets in a first RS-FEC block which have been transmitted by the first transmitter when the second transmitter completes ...