ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,875, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Data input buffer with a branched DFE reset path" was invented by William Chad Waldrop (Allen, Texas), Ki-Jun Nam (Allen, Texas), Won Joo Yun (Boise, Idaho) and Shingo Mitsubori (Inagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a memory device that includes a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) reset generator configured to transmit a DFE reset signal to reset taps of a DFE. The memory device also includes an input buffer. The input buffer includes a data branch configured to output data from the input buffer for use downstre...