ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,513, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Connector cage assembly" was invented by Yongfeng (Richard) Ma (Shanghai), Wenyu (Vindy) Liu (Shanghai) and Guangming (Suny) Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector cage assembly includes a housing, an intermediate member, a heat sink and a movable stop member. The housing defines upper and lower plug sockets stacked in a vertical direction. The intermediate member is arranged between the upper socket and the lower socket, and the heat sink is arranged adjacent the intermediate member. The stop member is movable within the housin...