ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,407, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Shielded socket pin for device-to-device connection" was invented by Landon Hanks (Milwaukie, Ore.), Xiang Li (Portland, Ore.), George Vergis (Portland, Ore.) and James A. McCall (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a system that includes: a first signal pin and a first ground pin adjacent to the first signal pin. In some examples, the first signal pin comprises a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. In some examples, the first ground pin comprises a first portion, a second portion, and a third po...