ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,038, issued on May 27, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Contact connector and electronic device" was invented by Jinbiao Liu (Beijing), Jianbo Zhou (Beijing) and Licheng Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact connector is provided. The contact connector includes a substrate and a metal elastic sheet, the substrate includes a first side and a second side opposite to each other, the metal elastic sheet includes a fixed section and a free section connected with each other, the fixed section is fixed to the substrate, the free section is provided with a connection contact, the substrate is...