US Patent Issued to Panduit on June 3 for "Field terminable single pair ethernet connector with angled contacts" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,914, issued on June 3, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).

"Field terminable single pair ethernet connector with angled contacts" was invented by Benjamin S. Novak (Lockport, Ill.), Satish I. Patel (Roselle, Ill.), Sean W. Lenz (Countryside, Ill.), Roman J. Churnovic (Manhatttan, Ill.), Robert E. Fransen (Orland Park, Ill.), Robert L. Fritz (Elwood, Ill.) and Jason O'Young (Tinley Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications connector has a shielded jack body and a wire cap. The shielded jack body has a single pair of plug interface contacts having a first thickness and a single pair of insulation displace...