ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,279, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and system including the same" was invented by Jaeho Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Sunho Ki (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wangseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of ports exchanging data with each other in an interface; and an interface controller including a link training and status state machine (LTSSM), configured to execute link-up, setting a plurality of lanes to the plurality of ports, and a memory configured to store a sequence, in which the LTSSM su...