US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Using control bus communication to accelerate link negotiation" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,866, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using control bus communication to accelerate link negotiation" was invented by Eran Moshe (Kfar Saba, Israel), Shuli Shmaya (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Barrett Edwards (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for devices connected by a control bus to share configuration data for accelerating physical link negotiation for a peripheral interface are described. Computer devices, such as data storage devices, may include a peripheral interface configured to connect to a host system and a control bus interface to connect to...