ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,904, issued on April 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrical connector with shielding between low and high frequency terminals and electrical connector device using the same" was invented by Ryosuke Shimomura (Mie, Japan), Yoji Miyazaki (Mie, Japan), Hiroshi Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Kazumasa Iijima (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes plural terminals, a housing holding the terminals, and an inner shield. The connector is configured to be connected to a mating connector by moving toward the mating connector in a first direction relatively with re...