ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,984, issued on July 1.
"Electrical connector" was invented by Ichiro Sugiura (Machida, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coaxial connector device includes: a signal contact member; a signal contact member; a ground contact member to which a ground potential is applied; and a conductive member including a rear ground connection portion that is connected to the ground contact member, and a front ground connection portion that is connected to a ground contact portion of a mating connector device. When viewed in a direction of fitting to the mating connector device, the front ground connection portion overlaps at least a part of a si...