ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,442, issued on July 7, was assigned to HARTING ELECTRIC STIFTUNG & Co. KG (Espelkamp, Germany).
"Electromagnetic shielding for a printed circuit board connector" was invented by Jana Buettemeyer (Rahden, Germany), Gert Havermann (Wallenhorst, Germany), Marc Genau (Luebbecke, Germany), Arno Westpfahl (Espelkamp, Germany) and Dieter Rose (Rahden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a shielding of an electrically conductive material for use in a printed circuit board connector. The shielding is formed of at least two shield elements which each have at least two shield contact receptacles, at least two shield contact eleme...