ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,475, issued on March 3, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Communication system having a power rail" was invented by Nicholas Paul Ruffini (Lancaster, Pa.), Howard Wallace Andrews Jr. (Hummelstown, Pa.), Robert Neil Mulfinger (Mount Wolf, Pa.) and Brian Patrick Costello (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power rail for powering a power driver assembly includes a rail member extending between a front end and a rear end. The rail member has a track including a channel between an upper support beam and a lower support beam. The track extends between the front end and the rear end. The...