ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,417, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Slicers and temperature offset cancelation circuits for decision feedback equalizers" was invented by Nicholas Bodnaruk (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Soon-Gil Jung (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gary Miller (Corbett, Ore.), Sai Goutham Sunkara (San Jose, Calif.) and Anthony Sanders (WeiBenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slicer of a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) comprises an integrator circuit, a regenerator circuit coupled to the integrator circuit, and a temperature offset cancelation circuit coupled to the regenerator circuit. The ...