ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,481, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Edge based partial response equalization" was invented by Brian S. Leibowitz (San Francisco), Hae-Chang Lee (Los Altos, Calif.), Jihong Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ruwan Ratnayake (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) chip includes transfer circuitry to transfer signals between the IC chip and a second IC chip. The transfer circuitry includes equalization circuitry having at least one tap to equalize the signals. The equalization circuitry includes a tap weight adapter circuit to generate a respective tap weight for each of t...