ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,401, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Cable card assembly of an electrical connector" was invented by Richard Elof Hamner (Middletown, Pa.) and Earl Daughtry (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable card assembly includes cables terminated to a circuit card and a cable yoke that holds the cables in fixed positions relative to each other. The cable yoke includes cable troughs at spaced apart positions receiving the corresponding cables. The cable yoke is electrically connected to the cable shields of the cables. The cable card assembly includes a ground bus ...