ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,162, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuits and methods for self-adaptive decision-feedback equalization in a memory system" was invented by Andrew M. Fuller (Durham, N.C.), Barry William Daly (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Thomas J. Giovannini (San Jose, Calif.), Lei Luo (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Masum Hossain (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are integrated circuits for equalizing parallel write-data and address signals from a memory controller. The integrated circuits each include a set of decision-feedback equalizers, one equalizer for each received signal. Each equalizer in a set...