ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,124, issued on June 3, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Method and device for high bandwidth receiver for high baud-rate communications" was invented by Stephane Dallaire (Gatineau, Canada), Ray Luan Nguyen (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Geoffrey Hatcher (Lake Forest, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog front-end (AFE) device includes a sampler array, differential source follower circuits, and programmable attenuation circuits. The sampler array receives input and clock signals. The sampler array including sampling circuits each sampling and holding the input signal based on one of the clock signals. The d...