ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,836, issued on July 29, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector with first and second connectors connectable to each other, the first connector includes first housing and a UTP module with inner conductors connected to a UTP cable, and the second connector includes electrically conductive shield member covering the UTP inner conductors with first and second connectors connected" was invented by Takuma Hibino (Mie, Japan), Hidekazu Matsuda (Mie, Japan) and Kazuhiro Yoshida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...