US Patent Issued to Amphenol on June 2 for "High density, high speed electrical connector" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,873, issued on June 2, was assigned to Amphenol Corp. (Wallingford, Conn.).

"High density, high speed electrical connector" was invented by Marc B. Cartier Jr. (Durham, N.H.), John Robert Dunham (Windham, N.H.), Mark W. Gailus (Concord, Mass.), John Pitten (Merrimack, N.H.), David Levine (Amherst, N.H.) and Vysakh Sivarajan (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dense, high-speed interconnection may be formed with a mating header and receptacle connector. The header connector may have groups of mating contact portions extending from the connector housing. Structural projections may extend from the housing adjacent some or all ...