US Patent Issued to Roku on Sept. 30 for "Expandable accordion-style cable overmold for secure connection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,666, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Expandable accordion-style cable overmold for secure connection" was invented by Mikkel Nielsen (San Jose, Calif.) and Gregory Michael Hogan (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and/or method embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, of an expandable overmold for a device connector such as an HDMI or USB-C connector. An example embodiment of the overmold includes an expandable connector body, an expansion mechanism for expanding the connector body, and a tensioning mec...