ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,584, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Cable" was invented by Hainan (Harlan) Lu (Dongguan, China) and Zhiwei (Jack) Guo (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable includes a pair of insulation core wires arranged to extend longitudinally parallel to each other, each of the insulation core wires has a central conductor and a wire insulation layer circumferentially wrapped around the center conductor, a first insulation tape layer and a second insulation tape layer wrapped outside the first insulation tape layer, and a metal shielding layer wrapped outside the second insula...