US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on Nov. 25 for "Method to add additional data rate to legacy physical interface" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,931, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method to add additional data rate to legacy physical interface" was invented by Hendricus De Ruijter (Rocklin, Calif.), Terry Dickey (Pflugerville, Texas), Wentao Li (Mountain House, Calif.), Bryan Murawski (Belmont, Mass.) and Marius Munder (Unna, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for adding a new information rate to a legacy physical interface of a communications system includes using a rate switch packet including a distinct rate select start-of-frame delimiter that indicates a newly defined physical interface packet. The rate swi...