ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,123, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUELL Corp. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Electrically dissipative flexible unitary connector insert" was invented by Ken Godana (Albuquerque, N.M.), Dusty Erven (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Karl Jurisson (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector insert that provides electrical dissipation for pins of an existing electrical connector that are desirable to have electrical dissipation, and which can provide electrical isolation from an electrically dissipative layer for pins which are desirable to not have electrical dissipation. The connector insert can include an electrically dissipative...