ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,949, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Communication receiver using multi-stage channel equalization and associated method" was invented by Chung-Hsien Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Che-Yu Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Ting Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tsung-Lin Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Sheng Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Ming Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication receiver includes a first signal processing circuit and a second signal processing circuit. The first signal processing circuit includes a first feedforward equalizer and a decision circuit. The first feedforward equ...