ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,864, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Alignment marker acquisition circuitry for a communication system" was invented by Denis Georgievich Poverennyy (Aschheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reducing a number of comparators used during an alignment marker (AM) search are presented. A method includes enabling communication between a physical coding sublayer (PCS) having a PCS transmit side and a PCS receive side with a physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer, at a first end, using multiple PCS lanes that receives data blocks from the multiple PCS lanes, wherein a P...