ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,836, issued on July 14, was assigned to Airoha Technology Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Sequence detection device using maximum likelihood sequence detection with programmable branch metric computation reduction and associated sequence detection method" was invented by Min-Hua Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sequence detection device includes a feed-forward filter, a feedback filter, a combining circuit, a decision circuit, and a sequence detection circuit. The feed-forward filter processes a received signal to generate a first equalized signal. The feedback filter processes a symbol decision signal to ge...