ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,583, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"PHY lanes disabling for power efficiency" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of entering lanes into an unused power state, enter unactive lanes into an unconnected power state to save more current during low power states. Using a small control logic will allow a controller to control unactive lanes in low power mode. When a lane is in an unactive power state or in an unused power state, an unactive lane controller (ULC) uses side-band signaling to place the unactive ...