ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,210, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network interface supporting time sensitive networks and MACsec protection" was invented by Maksym Demchenko (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, a network interface capable of processing network traffic conforming to a Time Sensitive Network (TSN) standard and a Media Access Control layer security (MACsec) standard, comprises, within an ingress path, a Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) connected to receive a traffic stream from a network link; a Media Access Control (MAC) unit configured to split the traffic stream into a pre...