ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,849, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Burst-tolerant decision feedback equalization" was invented by Thomas J. Giovannini (San Jose, Calif.) and Abhijit Abhyankar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first sequence of data bits is shifted into storage elements of a signal receiver during a first sequence of bit-time intervals, and a memory access command indicates that a second sequence of data bits is to be received within the signal receiver during a second sequence of bit-time intervals. Contents of the shift-register storage elements are conditionally overwritten with a predetermine...