ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,367, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TE Connectivity India Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India) and Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Cable connector for connecting a cable having a central conductor" was invented by Yunhe (Bill) Wang (Shanghai), Wenke He (Shanghai), Peng Zhai (Shanghai), Usha Kiran Govindaraj (Bangalore, India) and G Praveen Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable connector includes an outer shell, an outer electrical conductor mounted within the outer shell and defining a first through hole, an insulating housing disposed inside the outer electrical conductor and defining a seco...