ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,616, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Ethernet physical layer transceiver for sleep mode transmission and communication device including the same" was invented by Jung Kwun Son (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Ethernet physical layer transceiver and a communication device are provided. The Ethernet physical layer transceiver includes processing circuitry configured to transmit a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request packet to a server after entering a sleep mode."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2022, under Application No. 17/732,91...