ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,325, issued on July 14, was assigned to Varex Imaging Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Connector retainer cap assembly" was invented by Kendra Davis (Salt Lake City), Spencer Shore (Sandy, Utah), Davis Taylor (Salt Lake City), Erin Sorge (Murray, Utah), Jeroen Brouwer (Doetinchem, Netherlands), Jochem ter Horst (Beek, Netherlands), Tim van den Eijkel (Dulven, Netherlands) and Daniel Manwill (Riverton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector retainer cap assembly includes an outer plate, an inner plate, at least one biasing mechanism, and a retainer. The at least one biasing mechanism is disposed between the outer plate and the inner ...