ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,949, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Electrical connector having three rows of contacts and a coupling element interconnecting selected ground contacts thereof" was invented by Fang-Jwu Liao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jia-Hau Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Jui-Hsianh Chiu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes: a substrate having plural holes; plural contacts mounted in the corresponding holes, the plural contacts including a first row of contacts arranged as...