ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,295, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).
"Junction device for flat flexible cables" was invented by Paul D. Roman Jr. (Middletown, Pa.), Raghunandan Shrikanth Shanbhag (Bangalore, India) and William J. Remaley (Winston Salem, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A junction device for flat flexible cables (FFCs) includes a device housing, a power contact, a signal contact assembly, and a data contact assembly. The power contact defines an input power FFC connection, an output power FFC connection, and a breakout power FFC connection, with the input, output and breakout FFC connections being el...