ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,781, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Loss-controlled computing cable" was invented by Bhyrav M. Mutnury (Austin, Texas) and Sandor Farkas (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing cable that connects computing elements, including: a trace including a first trace segment and a second trace segment, the trace having a first impedance; and an attenuator connecting the first trace segment to the second trace segment, the attenuator including: a resistor having a resistance, and a conductor having a second impedance, wherein the combination of the resistance and the second impe...