ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,941, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Joint timing recovery and decision feedback equalizer adaptation in wireline network receivers" was invented by Saravanakkumar Radhakrishnan (Aruppukottai, India) and Raghu Ganesan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network communications receiver and a method of operating the same in symbol timing recovery and equalization adaptation. A data converter samples a received analog signal at an initialization frequency higher than the symbol frequency of the received signal, and converts the samples to a digital sample stream. A decision feedback eq...