ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,648, issued on July 28, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Signal transfer assembly with capacitive coupling" was invented by Norbert Winkler (Eggelsberg, Austria), Manuel Burger (Eggelsberg, Austria) and Christian Schneider (Eggelsberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal transfer assembly has a signal source with a signal source output, a signal sink with a signal sink input, having a signal sink input capacitance, and a communications channel connecting the signal source output to the signal sink input, where the communications channel has a first signal terminal for connecting the signal source outp...