US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 24 for "LGA socket pins for improved differential signaling performance" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,686, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"LGA socket pins for improved differential signaling performance" was invented by Xiang Li (Portland, Ore.), Shaohua Li (Pleasanton, Calif.), Landon Hanks (Milwaukie, Ore.), Kai Xiao (Portland, Ore.), Mo Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jingbo Li (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for reducing differential cross-talk in a pin arrangement of a socket are described. Socket pins within a differential pair use a modified shape to tighten the intra-pair pin coupling to reduce the crosstalk without changing the pin map. The middle ve...