ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,767, issued on June 9, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Data receiving method and data receiving device" was invented by Lien-Hsiang Sung (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Wun-Lin Chang (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data receiving method, applied to a first electronic device and a second electronic device, comprising: (a) generating a plurality of counting values via a counter circuit; (b) receiving alignment data stored in the second electronic device by the first electronic device; (c) sampling the alignment data by a sampler circuit in the first electronic device to generate a plurality of sam...