ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,261, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Near-end crosstalk cancellation system" was invented by Jingbo Li (Portland, Ore.), Beom-Taek Lee (Beaverton, Ore.), Jong-Ru Guo (Portland, Ore.), Yunhui Chu (Hillsboro, Ore.), Chunfei Ye (Lacey, Wash.) and Kai Xiao (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a crosstalk cancelation circuit comprising a plurality of taps to output signals based on a signal transmitted via a first data line; and a summation circuit to combine a signal received by a second data line with the signals output by the plurality of taps to reduce near-end c...