ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,686, issued on March 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Termination of cables for a connector" was invented by David Nozadze (San Jose, Calif.), Mike Sapozhnikov (San Jose, Calif.), Amendra Koul (San Francisco), Sayed Ashraf Mamun (San Jose, Calif.) and Upen Reddy Kareti (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to an apparatus for connecting cables to Input Output (IO) connector pins, including: a first Printed Circuit Board (PCB) configured to receive terminal ends of a plurality of cables, wherein the terminal ends of the plurality of cable...