US Patent Issued to CIENA on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for surface mount connections" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,922, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Method and apparatus for surface mount connections" was invented by Russell Mays (Stockton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a connector having a connector body and one or more rows of pins, where the connector facilitates a pluggable connection to an electrical cable or pluggable transceiver, where at least one of the one or more rows of pins includes a first group of the pins extending in a first direction and a second group of the pins extending in a second, different direction. T...