ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,939, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tyco Electronics Technology (SIP) Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Sealing arrangement for a connector that accommodates different diameter cables" was invented by Jianlin Huang (Suzhou, China), Feng (Carlos) Pan (Suzhou, China) and Minjie Zhu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector sealing assembly includes an outer housing defining a plurality of seal mounting portions. A cable seal of the assembly is mounted on a cable seal mounting portion of the plurality of seal mounting portions. The cable seal is sized and located to form a seal between the outer housing and a cable extending in...