ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,383, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electronic assembly" was invented by Abdessamad El Ouardi (Illingen, Germany), Marcus Mohr (Pressath, Germany), Raphael Segiet (Reutlingen, Germany) and Richard Gueckel (Landau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shielded electric plug. The electric plug includes a plug housing and a data line arranged within the plug housing for transmitting data in the Gbit/s range. A plug side of the data line electrically contacts the plug with a complementary mating plug and a connection side of the data line for electrically contacting with a circuit carrier....