ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,678, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Inquirer-side circuit supporting asymmetry data mode" was invented by Yuan-Jih Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yao-Chun Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Yen Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ming Hsuan Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inquirer-side circuit of an automotive Ethernet system includes: a hybrid circuit arranged to operably conduct data communication with a respondent-side circuit through an MDI circuit; a transmitting circuit coupled with a hybrid circuit and arranged to operably generate and provide a transmission signal to the hy...