ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,427, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TE Connectivity Services GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Fixed equipment, alignment system and method" was invented by Rong Zhang (Shanghai), Dandan (Emily) Zhang (Shanghai), Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Lei (Alex) Zhou (Shanghai) and Xianghao (Jorge) Bao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing system includes a wire clamping device and a fixture. The wire clamping device is adapted to clamp and fix a plurality of wires. The fixture includes a base plate, a wire fixing member adapted to fix the plurality of wires cla...