US Patent Issued to Altera on June 23 for "Techniques for reducing filter distortion in data using emphasis" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,681, issued on June 23, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for reducing filter distortion in data using emphasis" was invented by Volker Mauer (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a filter circuit and a computation circuit that applies emphasis to a data stream in a frequency domain to reduce distortion to the data stream caused by the filter circuit. The emphasis is determined based on the distortion caused by the filter circuit. A circuit design system includes logic synthesis and optimization tools that relax parameters for a first filter circuit to generate relaxed parame...