ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,635, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Faraday Technology Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Apparatus and method for performing self-calibration of receiver offset without shorting differential input terminals of receiver" was invented by Chih-Hung Wu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Ko-Ching Chao (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Po-Wen Hsiao (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Zhou-Lun Liou (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing self-calibration of receiver offset without shorting differential input terminals of a receiver are provided. The self-calibration includes: inputting input signals carrying predetermined data patterns i...