ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,270, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ardent Concepts Inc. (Hampton, N.H.).
"Controlled-impedance compliant cable termination" was invented by Sergio Diaz (Cambridge, Mass.), Gordon A. Vinther (Hampton, N.H.) and Joseph F. DiDonna (Lee, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlled-impedance cable assembly for removably attaching a controlled-impedance cable to a surface of a device. Signal contacts are attached to signal conductors of cables and ground members are coupled to shields of the cables. Ends of the signal conductors and of elongated appendages extending from the ground members are positioned to make a pressure contac...