ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,963, issued on June 10, was assigned to ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Electrical receptacle connector with central shield" was invented by Shu-Fen Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Chai Yeh (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Guan-Lin Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing in the metallic shell, a plurality of terminals at the insulated housing, and a metallic plate at the insulated housing. The terminals include two first terminal groups and two second terminal groups arranged in two rows, and the two rows are respectively arranged ...