ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,386, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Circuit to improve ethernet immunity to electrical fast transient" was invented by Haihui Lu (Shanghai), David D. Brandt (New Berlin, Wis.), Caleb J. Palagyi (Sagamore Hills, Ohio), Joseph M. Futey (Seven Hills, Ohio), Brian R. Campbell (Brecksville, Ohio), Neal R. Krejci (Seven Hills, Ohio) and Zhijie Gong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to circuitry immunity to electrical interference, such as Electrical Fast Transient (EFT) interference. In an example embodiment, an interference dissipati...