ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,747, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ACCTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Card edge connector with shielding structure and shielding member" was invented by Chun-Wei Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Pai-Yuan Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shielding member adapted to cover a card edge connector that has a card slot for inserting an electronic card includes a shielding cover covering the card edge connector, having an opening disposed in a position corresponding to a jack of the card slot, and including a top plate, an extending plate, and several side plates. The top plate is disposed on a top portion of t...