ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,400, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Passive equalizer with front-end level-shifter (FELS)" was invented by Shawn Wang (Campbell, Calif.), Wenlong Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Arif Amin (Fremont, Calif.) and Dai Dai (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for providing passive equalization with front-end level shifter (FELS) are described. One receiver device includes an input terminal, an analog signal processing circuit; and a front-end equalizer circuit coupled between the input terminal and the analog signal processing circuit. The front-end equalizer circuit includes a ...