ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,880, issued on April 1, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Contact insulators for use with differential pairs of contacts and method of termination" was invented by Nicholas Paul Ruffini (Lancaster, Pa.), Lynn Robert Sipe (Mifflintown, Pa.), Samantha K Heisey (Palmyra, Pa.) and Kyle Gary Annis (Hummelstown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact insulator for use with high speed cable with differential pairs of contacts. A contact receiving portion has contact receiving slots which open from a first side of the contact insulator. A conductor receiving portion has conductor receiving slots which open ...