ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,687, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amphenol East Asia Electronic Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"High speed electrical connector and printed circuit board thereof" was invented by Qigui Xu (Shenzhen, China), E Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Zhigang Sheng (Shenzhen, China) and Shengxian Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked I/O connector with surface mountable tails and a printed circuit board (PCB) configured to receive the connector. The connector may avoid terminal deformations or scratches when the connector is mounted to the PCB. The PCB may include solder pads on a single surface or both...