ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,908, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of synchronization for universal serial bus and system thereof" was invented by Chih-Chieh Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tse-Wei Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Cheng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synchronization in a training state of Universal Serial Bus (USB) includes sending SLOS1 ordered sets by a transmitter in a LOCK1 state, receiving the SLOS1 ordered sets by a receiver in the LOCK1 state, stopping the transmitter from sending training ordered sets according to a lane adapter state machine (LASM) if the transmitter sends ...