ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,510, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Neoconix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Connector including signal pins shielded by buried ground vias" was invented by Woody Maynard (State College, Pa.), Mayuresh Patki (Harrisburg, Pa.), David Chen (Los Altos, Calif.) and Gary Hsieh (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for electrically connecting to conductive structures formed on a semiconductor device includes a core with first, second and third ground planes isolated from each other and signal vias and ground vias formed therein, conductive signal traces formed coplanar with the second ground plane and isolated from a co...