ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,100, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amphenol Corp. (Wallingford, Conn.).

"Miniaturized high speed connector" was invented by Arkady Y. Zerebilov (Lancaster, Pa.), Michael Rowlands (Milford, Mass.), Theron Ensminger (East Berlin, Pa.) and Jeremy Shober (Lititz, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for use with high speed signals. The connector may include lead frame assemblies in a connector housing. A lead frame assembly may include signal conductive elements and ground conductive elements disposed in a repeating pattern, and one or more corrugated sheets attached to the ground conductive elements. The corrugated sheets...