ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,723, issued on April 7, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Contact assembly having cable contacts and connector contacts" was invented by Blake Dunbar (Middletown, Pa.) and Nitish Balakrishnan (Harrisburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact assembly includes a contact organizer having a central wall that includes a front slot configured to receive a card edge of a circuit card and a pass-through window through the central wall. The contact assembly includes upper and lower contact arrays of upper and lower contacts coupled to the central wall. The contacts include forward sections e...