US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 14 for "Connector having narrow surface-mount contact pitch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,864, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Connector having narrow surface-mount contact pitch" was invented by James M. Jeon (Mountain House, Calif.), Mahmoud R. Amini (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Marc Soriano Baliarda (Irvine, Calif.) and Tianrun Jiang (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Connector receptacles that can provide a robust and reliable connection to a board and have a small form factor. An example can provide connector receptacles that provide a robust and reliable connection to a board by providing contacts having highly planarized solder tails. The solder tails can be supported by ex...