ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,811, issued on July 29, was assigned to TECHNETIX B.V. (Veenendaal, Netherlands).
"Cable tap" was invented by Jan Ariesen (Veenendaal, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a cable tap (36) comprising an input (38) and an output (40), a first signal path (37) connected between the input (38) and the output (40), and a splitter element (26) providing a plurality of tap ports (24), wherein a second signal path (43) is connected between the splitter element (26) and the first signal path (37) and signal processing element (42) is disposed in the second signal path (43), the signal processing element (42) configure...