US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Decoupled spring and electrical path in connector interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,650, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Decoupled spring and electrical path in connector interface" was invented by Adam H. Herzog (Los Altos, Calif.), Mahmoud R. Amini (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mohammed Nasser Khamis Al Jashmi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), George Tziviskos (San Jose, Calif.), Nikhil S. Pansare (Cupertino, Calif.), William P. Cornelius (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Seungyong Baek (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Connectors that support high-speed data transfers and have a high signal quality, good reliability, and are readily manufactured. One example can provide a connector receptacle...