ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,071, issued on June 17, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Decision feedback equalizer" was invented by Yao-Chia Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decision feedback equalizer includes an adder, a comparison device, a register, and a decision feedback coefficient (DFC) generator. The comparison device includes N data comparator(s), each of which includes a feedback compensation circuit, an input-stage circuit, a gain-stage circuit, and a latch in sequence. The feedback compensation circuit determines a degree of compensation according to feedback coefficients from the DFC generator and ...