US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on June 23 for "Multi-pin network cable connector" (California, Texas, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,361, issued on June 23, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-pin network cable connector" was invented by George Allan Zimmerman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio), Jason Dewayne Potterf (Austin, Texas), Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.) and Elizabeth Kochuparambil (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for connectors, apparatuses, and system with connectors for data and power. A connector at an end of the network cable can be configured to mate with a port in a device. The connector can include a set of data pins for connectin...