ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,036, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amphenol Corp. (Wallingford, Conn.).

"High performance cable termination" was invented by Mark M. Ayzenberg (Hudson, N.H.), Khwajahussain Gadwal Mohammed (Nashua, N.H.), Erdem Matoglu (Stratham, N.H.) and Catalin Muntean (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable assembly comprising a connector with a termination that enables high density and high signal integrity. Shields of cables are terminated to a paddle card via a conductive structure attached to a surface of the paddle card. The signal conductors of the cables are terminated to pads on the paddle card that are exposed within ope...