ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,588, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable includes a pair of insulation core wires extending longitudinally parallel to each other, each of the insulation core wires has a central conductor and a core insulation layer circumferentially wrapped around the central conductor, an inner insulation layer wrapped on an outside of the core insulation layers of the insulation core wires to fix the insulation core wires, a metal shielding layer...