ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,296, issued on June 24, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Electrical connector having a ground bar and a ground bridge connected to the ground bar and to a ground contact" was invented by Terrance F. Little (Fullerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes: a contact unit including plural pairs of signal contacts and plural ground contacts between adjacent pairs of signal contacts; a cable including plural wires terminated to the contact unit; a ground bar retaining the cable to the c...