ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,684, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Serdes circuit CTLE adaptation using ISI metering" was invented by Itamar Levin (Holon, Israel), Tali Warshavsky (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Yekutiel Uliel (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CTLE-based SERDES receiver circuit using ISI metering provides an improved SERDES I/O performance. The CTLE SERDES receiver circuit may include an analog receiver frontend to generate an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) digital signal and a reduced ISI signal, a data path circuit to generate a sliced data stream and sliced cursor error stream, a digital signal proce...