US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 9 for "Parallel direct-feedback decision-feedback equalizer for high-speed low-voltage wireline links" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,456, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Parallel direct-feedback decision-feedback equalizer for high-speed low-voltage wireline links" was invented by Darius Valaee (San Diego) and Patrick Isakanian (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for equalizing a data signal includes providing a data signal to a pair of input transistors that provides an output signal, contributing to the output signal, a first current or voltage that has a magnitude determined by a first weighted feedback signal using a first decision-feedback circuit that includes a first pullup circuit coupled to a dr...