US Patent Issued to FCI USA on July 15 for "Electrical connector with conductive member welded to conductive elements" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,514, issued on July 15, was assigned to FCI USA LLC (Etters, Pa.).

"Electrical connector with conductive member welded to conductive elements" was invented by Jason Si (Toronto), Ba Pham (Toronto), Xingye Chen (Markham, Canada) and Sam Kocsis (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked I/O connector for use with a high speed, high density transceiver that generates a large amount of heat. The connector may be formed with a web-like housing into which leadframe assemblies are inserted. The web-like housing may have openings in the front, back, top and/or sides, enabling airflow through the connector with little resistance. ...