US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on May 12 for "Shielded connector assembly" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,103, issued on May 12, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Shielded connector assembly" was invented by Chin Hua Lim (Mo Kio, Singapore), Saujit Bandhu (Sengkang, Singapore), YunLong Qiao (Bukit Timah, Singapore), Kok Hoe Lee (Geylang, Singapore) and Siang Sin Foo (Serangoon, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly, configured to mate with a mating connector along a mating direction, includes a circuit board, at least one cable, an insulative housing, an electrically conductive unitary shield, a pull tab, and a retention feature. The cable includes a plurality of conductors having fro...