ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,830, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Link training" was invented by Zvi Rechtman (Petah Tikva, Israel), Guy Lederman (Ness Ziona, Israel), Stanislav Gurtovoy (Nesher, Israel), Ran Ravid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Lavi Koch (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Oded Nadir (Ramat HaShofet, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a multi-segment communication network system includes nodes connected via links, a first node including a first receiver and transmitter, and a second node including a second receiver and transmitter, wherein the first transmitter is to transmit a link training frame ...