ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,942, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amphenol Corp. (Wallingford, Conn.).
"Very high speed, high density electrical interconnection system with broadside subassemblies" was invented by Marc B. Cartier Jr. (Durham, N.H.), John Robert Dunham (Windham, N.H.), Mark W. Gailus (Concord, Mass.), Donald A. Girard Jr. (Bedford, N.H.), Brian Kirk (Amherst, N.H.), David Levine (Amherst, N.H.) and Vysakh Sivarajan (Nashua, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular electrical connector with broad-side coupled signal conductors in a right angle intermediate portion. Broadside coupling provides balanced pairs for very high frequency operation...