ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,272, issued on July 29, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Cable assembly with crosstalk barrier" was invented by Alexander W. Barr (Austin, Texas), Dennis L. Doye (Cedar Park, Texas), John D. Geissinger (Austin, Texas), Joseph N. Castiglione (Cedar Park, Texas), Thomas Suniga (Austin, Texas) and Mark M. Lettang (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable assembly is disclosed. The cable assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB) including a plurality of alternating ground pads and groups of signal pads, and a cable comprising a plurality of spaced apart differential pairs. Each differ...