ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,279, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo) and NTT INNOVATIVE DEVICES Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Connecting circuit and communication interface" was invented by Tadashi Minotani (Tokyo), Toshiki Kishi (Tokyo), Masatoshi Tobayashi (Yokohama, Japan) and Yoshikazu Urabe (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is a connecting circuit connected to the preceding stage of a transmission circuit and configured to receive a baseband signal, includes an isolation element connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, a signal midpoint detection circuit connected para...