ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,342, issued on April 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for input buffer data feedback equalization circuits" was invented by Kohei Nakamura (Tokyo) and Shuichi Tsukada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for input buffer data feedback equalization (DFE). An input buffer includes a DFE circuit which adjusts a threshold voltage of the input buffer based on a previously latched data bit. The DFE circuit includes a number of DFE legs coupled in parallel to a node of the input buffer. Each DFE leg is selectively activated by a DFE code. Each DFE...