ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,049, issued on May 20, was assigned to Macronix International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Decision feedback equalization in semiconductor devices" was invented by Shang-Chi Yang (Changhua County, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Tung-Yu Li (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic circuits, memory devices, and methods for compensating for data distortion from channel loss are provided. In one aspect, an electronic circuit includes a converter circuit configured to convert an input signal to a digital signal and a compensation circuit coupled to the converter circuit. The converter circuit includes a samp...