ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,900, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Analog assisted feed-forward equalizer" was invented by Ahmed Safwat Mohamed Aboelenein Elmallah (San Jose, Calif.), Ahmed Othman Mohamed Mohamed ElShater (San Jose, Calif.) and Tamer Mohammed Ali (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to analog-assisted feed-forward equalizers. An example apparatus includes a first charge element digital-to-analog converter (DAC) including a first plurality of charge storage elements configured to store first samples of charge based on respective first portions of a digital inpu...