ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,242, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsemi Storage Solutions Ltd. (Vancouver, Canada).
"On-chip link analysis" was invented by Bin Li (Surrey, Canada), Richard David Sodke (Kelowna, Canada) and Robert Kristian Watson (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more examples relate to an on-chip protocol analyzer provided at a physical layer of a communication interface to receive information about link control process data carried by a communication system to or from a protocol control logic of the communication interface."
The patent was filed on Jan. 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/648,632.
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