ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,362, issued on May 27, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Signal receiver and slicer" was invented by Hsuan-Ting Ho (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Hsiung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Liang-Wei Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal receiver and a slicer are capable of mitigating the static mismatch error of a far-end digital-to-analog converter. The slicer includes an adjustable slicing circuit and an error signal generating circuit. The adjustable slicing circuit determines which of (N+1) signal levels is corresponding to an input signal according to N slicer levels and thereby outputs an...