US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Sept. 2 for "Decision-feedback equalizer using feedback filter with controllable delay circuit and associated method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,546, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Decision-feedback equalizer using feedback filter with controllable delay circuit and associated method" was invented by Chih-Lun Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wen-Hsuan Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) includes a combining circuit and a feedback filter. The combining circuit combines an input signal and at least one feedback signal to generate an equalized signal. The feedback filter generates the at least one feedback signal according to the equalized signal, and includes a controllable delay circuit. Th...