ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,116, issued on June 2, was assigned to Macronix International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Decision feedback equalization in semiconductor devices" was invented by Chun-Hao Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shang-Chi Yang (Changhua County, Taiwan), Shiang-Yuan Li (Tainan, Taiwan) and Hsuan-Chieh Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic circuit includes: a data input port, a timing adjustment circuit configured to receive data from the data input port, first and second logic circuits, a multiplexer, and a data output port. The timing adjustment circuit includes two paths configured to impose first and second delays to ...