ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,936, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amphenol Corp. (Wallingford, Conn.).

"High speed connector" was invented by Jose Ricardo Paniagua (Newmarket, N.H.), Philip T. Stokoe (Attleboro, Mass.), Thomas S. Cohen (New Boston, N.H.), Robert Richard (Nashua, N.H.), Donald W. Milbrand Jr. (Bristol, N.H.), Eric Leo (Nashua, N.H.) and Mark W. Gailus (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnection system with lossy material of a first connector adjacent a ground conductor of a second connector. The lossy material may damp resonances at a mating interface of the first and second connectors. In some embodiments, the lossy mater...