ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,995, issued on May 13, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method of power transmission" was invented by Takeshi Kiribuchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal for supplying power and a signal for transmitting information are transmitted suitably. A method for transmitting a signal to a power transmission path includes: a first step of disposing a first power transmission path and a second power transmission path; a second step of attaching a predetermined process device, being detachable, between the first power transmission path and the second power transmission path such that an input terminal of the pred...