ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,695, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tektronix Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Transmitter equalizer tap extraction" was invented by Kan Tan (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test and measurement instrument has one or more input ports to connect the instrument to a device under test (DUT), one or more processors configured to execute code to cause the one or more processors to: receive an equalized waveform and an un-equalized waveform through the input port from the DUT, without any knowledge of a digital pattern that corresponds to the waveforms and without extracting the digital pattern from the waveforms, align the un-e...