ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,937, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Electrical connector assembly having differential pair contact modules and a sideband contact module assembled to the differential pair contact modules" was invented by Chun-Hsiung Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Min Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector assembly includes: an insulative housing forming a front mating slot and a rear receiving space; a contact module received in the insulative housing and including an up...