ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,769, issued on April 22, was assigned to ALLTOP ELECTRONICS (SUZHOU) LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Electrical connector with high versatility" was invented by Wangi Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yonggang Zhang (Suzhou, China), Feng Zheng (Suzhou, China) and Dele Hu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, at least a first contact and a connecting element. The insulative housing defines at least a receiving slot extending along a front-and-back direction. The first contact is received in the corresponding receiving slot, the connecting element is partially received in the receiving slot....