ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,260, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DENSO ELECTRONICS Corp. (Anjo, Japan) and FOSTER ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electrical device" was invented by Susumu Miyata (Anjo, Japan) and Atsushi Koga (Akishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical device includes a housing, a drive unit arranged inside the housing a substrate arranged inside the housing, and a terminal electrically connecting the substrate with an external portion outside the housing. On the substrate, a circuit driving the drive unit is formed. The terminal includes a terminal protrusion exposed from an inner wall surface of the housing and protruding...