ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,727, issued on April 15, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Processing circuit, network device and processing method for anomaly detection" was invented by Ching-Wei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing circuit, a network device, and a processing method for anomaly detection are provided. The network device includes a processing circuit and network ports. The processing circuit includes a physical layer (PHY) transmission unit, a PHY control unit, a state detection unit, and a reset unit. The processing circuit performs steps of: switching from operating in the first operation ...