ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,952, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Transceiver physical layer interface" was invented by Guillaume Mouret (Portet-sur-Garonne, France), Fabien Viemon (Cugnaux, France), Guerric Panis (Cambernard, France) and Nicolas Astruc (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a transceiver physical layer interface. Example embodiments include a transmission line transceiver (401) comprising: first and second terminals (406a, 406b); a control module (416); an amplifier module (414) connected between the control module (416) and the first and second terminals (406a, 406b); a switch...