Patents by Inventor Carl Todd Herman

Carl Todd Herman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Communications connectors having electrically parallel sets of contacts
    Patent number: 9112320
    Abstract: Communications connectors include a plurality of input contacts that are arranged as differential pairs of input contacts, a plurality of first output contacts that are electrically connected to respective ones of the plurality of input contacts, and a first pair of second output contacts that are electrically connected by a pair of conductive paths to one of the differential pairs of input contacts. The first output contacts are configured to physically contact respective ones of a plurality of first contacts of a second communications connector. Moreover, each contact of the first pair of second output contacts is electrically in parallel to a respective one of the first output contacts when the communications connector is mated with the second communications connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Amid Hashim, Carl Todd Herman, Scott L. Michaelis, Richard A. Schumacher, David L. Heckmann, Hongwei Liang, Wayne D. Larsen