ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,345, issued on May 6, was assigned to National Institute of Metrology, China (Beijing).

"Standard circuit and standard for far-end crosstalk of category 6A cable (CAT 6A)" was invented by Xin Zhou (Beijing), Qingfei Shen (Beijing) and Tong Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A standard circuit for far-end crosstalk of a CAT 6A, including a first network connector and a second network connector. The first network connector includes a first transmitted signal pair and a first received signal pair. The second network connector is connected to the first network connector, and includes a second transmitted signal pair and a second ...