ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,398, issued on March 25, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Shield connector capable of suppressing impendance mismatching" was invented by Hidekazu Matsuda (Mie, Japan), Kazuki Hiramatsu (Mie, Japan), Taiga Kadoyama (Mie, Japan), Ai Hirano (Mie, Japan) and Masanao Yamashita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shield connector is provided with a dielectric 40 including a plurality of accommodation chambers 44 defined in a width direction by a separation wall portion 43, and a plurality of inner conduc...