ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,404, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NTT INC. (Tokyo) and NTT INNOVATIVE DEVICES Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Transmission interface and transmitter" was invented by Tadashi Minotani (Tokyo), Toshiki Kishi (Tokyo), Masatoshi Tobayashi (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshikazu Urabe (Yokohama, Japan) and Nobuhiro Toyoda (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transmission interface includes a plurality of transmitters, wherein the transmitters are provided with: a power supply terminal shared by the plurality of transmitters, configured to receive a ground voltage; a bias terminal configured to receive a bias voltage; signal terminals co...