ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,072, issued on June 17, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Signal receiving apparatus and method having parameter optimization mechanism" was invented by Xiao-Guo Zheng (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a signal receiving apparatus having parameter optimization mechanism. A signal processing circuit processes a data signal according to at least one equalization parameter to generate an equalized data signal. A clock data recovery circuit performs clock data recovery on the equalized data signal according to a primary sampling signal and a primary threshold valu...