ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,886, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Hybrid serial receiver circuit" was invented by Ryan D. Bartling (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jafar Savoj (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Brian S. Leibowitz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid receiver circuit included in a computer system may include both an analog and an ADC-based receiver circuit. A front-end circuit generates different equalized signals based on received signals that encode a serial data stream that includes multiple data symbols. Depending on a baud rate of the serial data stream, either the digital receive circuit or the analog receiver...