ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,595, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System and method for providing compression attached memory module compression connectors" was invented by Arnold Thomas Schnell (Hutto, Texas) and Joseph Daniel Mallory (Cedar Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A z-axis compression connector includes a plurality of high-speed signal contacts arranged in a grid of M rows by N columns, and a plurality of signal return contacts arranged between the N columns. A first signal return contact is positioned mid-way in line between a first signal contact and a second signal contact, where the first signal ...