US Patent Issued to NEXANS on Nov. 11 for "Connection housings for single-pair ethernet cables and associated wired ethernet networks" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,990, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).

"Connection housings for single-pair ethernet cables and associated wired ethernet networks" was invented by Jean-Jacques Sage (Suze-la-Rousse, France), Didier Willems (Tarcienne, Belgium) and Luc De Bolle (Ternat, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection housing has a main and secondary pair of electrical contacts on a printed circuit board, each having a first and a second electrical contact. A first set of conductive tracks electrically couples the first contacts of the main and secondary pairs, and a second set of tracks electrically couples the secon...