ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,143, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Reflective cancellations in a connector wipe of a surface mount connector" was invented by Sandor Farkas (Round Rock, Texas) and Bhyrav Mutnury (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board includes a dielectric and a connector. The connector is mounted on the dielectric. The connector includes a first connector lead, a first contact point, and a first connector wipe. The first connector wipe includes a plurality of low impedance bumps. The low impedance bumps create an impedance mismatch between the first connector lead and the fir...