ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,971, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Receivers and semiconductor memory devices including the same" was invented by Hyochang Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver includes a decision feedback equalizer therein. The equalizer, which includes a cascaded arrangement of a first stage having a first plurality of summers therein and a second stage having a second plurality of summers therein, is configured to: (i) generate a compensated data signal by summing a current value of a data signal and a plurality of feedback signals, in response to a plurality of sele...