US Patent Issued to Apple on July 22 for "Connector having a release button" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,267, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Connector having a release button" was invented by Muhammad F. Hossain (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Samuel A. Resnick (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing and a release button. The housing defines a recess for receiving a latch member of a receptacle. The release button is operable to cause displacement of the latch member from the recess and has a surface that aligns with a surface portion of the housing when disconnected from the receptacle. The surface of the release button protrudes from the surface portion of the housing w...