ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,004, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cadence Design System Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Decision feedback equalization tap network" was invented by Riju Biswas (Noida, India) and Nitin Kumar (Uttar Pradesh, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for decision feedback equalization. Embodiments include a sum amplifier having a differential tap network architecture wherein the sum amplifier includes at least one resistor, at least one transistor, and at least one source node, wherein the at least one source node is directly connected to a complete tap network."
The patent was filed...