ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,973, issued on July 1, was assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC (Claremont, N.C.).
"Connectors for a single twisted pair of conductors" was invented by Scott Martin Keith (Plano, Texas), Amid Ihsan Hashim (Plano, Texas), Bryan Scott Moffitt (Red Bank, N.J.) and Shawn Phillip Tobey (Trinity, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A family of connectors to accommodate a single twisted pair of conductors is disclosed herein. The family of connectors includes a free connector, a fixed connector, and an adapter; the free and/or fixed connectors can be modified to accommodate the adapter configuration and/or modified to accommodate various p...