US Patent Issued to PicoJool on Sept. 1 for "Deep pluggable receptacle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,087, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PicoJool Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Deep pluggable receptacle" was invented by Albert T Yuen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Paul K Rosenberg (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receptacle assembly may include a transfer subsystem (562, 1362) to receive a pluggable module (580) and securely engage the pluggable module with an interface (564, 1364). The interface is mechanically coupled with the transfer subsystem and configured to mate with the pluggable module and to reliably transfer optical signals and/or electric signals between the pluggable module and a printed circuit board (PCB...