ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,802, issued on March 11, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Differential signal transmission cable" was invented by Kengo Goto (Osaka, Japan), Akihisa Hosoe (Osaka, Japan), Yuto Kobayashi (Kanuma, Japan) and Yuji Ochi (Kanuma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential signal transmission cable includes an insulation layer extending in a longitudinal direction of the differential signal transmission cable, a pair of signal lines extending in the longitudinal direction and buried inside the insulation layer, an intermediate layer covering an outer circumferential surface of the insulation laye...