ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,216, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Connector for transmitting high-speed signals" was invented by Liang (Vincent) Huang (Shanghai) and Eric David Briant (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing, a plurality of transmission terminals disposed within the housing, and a grounding strip disposed within the housing and arranged on one side of the plurality of transmission terminals. The grounding strip includes a plurality of grounding terminals and a plurality of extensions. The plura...