ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,081, issued on June 16, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Intermediate circuit board and intermediate electrical connector" was invented by Xingyu Cheng (Yokohama, Japan), Shota Yamada (Yokohama, Japan), Takafumi Sugawara (Yokohama, Japan) and Nobuhiro Tamai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The intermediate circuit board has a plate-shaped substrate and a plurality of signal transmission line pairs for differential signal transmission extending on a major face of the substrate from one end to the other end of the substrate in the direction of connection to the counterpart connect bodies; the ...