ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,353, issued on June 23, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Plug-in connector for symmetrical signal transmission" was invented by Sebastian Stamm (Brakel, Germany), Thomas Kaps (Vlotho, Germany) and Karsten Krome (Detmold, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug connector for symmetrical signal transmission includes: at least two connection contacts on a connection side of the plug connector; at least two plug contacts on a plugging side of the plug connector on an opposite side to the connection side; at least two conductors, each of which connects one connection contact to one of the plug cont...