ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,330, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High-speed signaling systems with adaptable pre-emphasis and equalization" was invented by Jared L. Zerbe (Woodside, Calif.), Fred F. Chen (San Francisco), Andrew Ho (San Jose, Calif.), Ramin Farjad-Rad (Los Altos, Calif.), John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Kevin S. Donnelly (Los Altos, Calif.), Brian S. Leibowitz (San Francisco) and Vladimir Stojanovic (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signaling system includes a pre-emphasizing transmitter and an equalizing receiver coupled to one another via a high-speed signal path. The receiver measures ...