ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,690, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to AIRBORN LLC.

"Socket having multiple contact points" was invented by Ryan Strider (Georgetown, Texas), Kevin Traugott (Georgetown, Texas), Matt Gold (Little Falls, Minn.) and William Rhea (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrical cable connector and method therefor employ a plurality of sockets, each socket having elongate contact members extending distally along a length of the socket, each contact member resiliently biased toward a central vertical axis of the socket. The contact members include first contact members and second contact members that have different fundamental ...