ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,288, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Network transceiver with VGA channel specific equalization" was invented by Bupesh Pandita (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network transceiver device is provided, including at least two variable gain amplifiers (VGAs), and at least two sets of analog digital converters (ADCs), each set including ADCs coupled to an output of one of the VGAs, the sets being arranged in VGA-specific channels. The device includes a plurality of feed-forward equalizers (FFEs), each FFE being coupled to receive an output of one of the ADCs in one of t...