ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,340, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Equalizer settings for a re-driver" was invented by Yang Wu (Shanghai), Howard Heck (Tigard, Ore.), Jingbo Li (Portland, Ore.) and Tao Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may relate to a controller coupled to a re-driver, where the controller has one or more sensor ports to couple with sensor devices, with circuitry coupled with the sensor ports and a re-driver port to receive operational data from the sensor ports, and based on the received operational data identify an indication of a re-driver equalizer setting to...