ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,719, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Receiver with feed forward equalization" was invented by Bo Sun (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Jafar Savoj (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver with feed-forward equalization is disclosed. A receiver includes a delay circuit configured to receive a first signal that encodes a serial data stream having a plurality of data symbols. The delay circuit includes at least one T-coil circuit and is configured to generate a plurality of delayed signals using the first signal. The receiver further includes a front-end circuit configured to generate an equa...