US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Power connector with asymmetric insertion-to-extraction force ratio" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,385, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power connector with asymmetric insertion-to-extraction force ratio" was invented by Mahmoud R. Amini (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Deep Karpe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James M. Jeon (Mountain House, Calif.), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Rui Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Unhyi Yang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power connector systems that can have an asymmetric insertion-to-extraction force ratio such that they are easy to mate and can reliably remain connected during use. The power connector systems can have a low-profile for use in thin electron...