US Patent Issued to ULTRATECH, EPROM on Feb. 17 for "Electrical connector comprising two sleeves defining a closed equipotential cavity around a contact zone" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,949, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ULTRATECH (Le Chesnay, France) and EPROM (Poissy, France).

"Electrical connector comprising two sleeves defining a closed equipotential cavity around a contact zone" was invented by Razvan Ilie (Rocquencourt, France) and Michel Ramez (Poissy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electrical connector including: a first contact, and a second contact; a first sleeve and a second sleeve forming a box in a connected configuration of the connector around a contact zone; the first sleeve including a first radially outer wall for electrically connecting to a shielding braid of the firs...