ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,701, issued on March 4, was assigned to FCL Components Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Relay having a base with a leg configured to contact a yoke of the relay" was invented by Takuji Murakoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base of a relay has a leg extending in a contact/separation direction between contacts, and the leg is configured to come into contact with a yoke when the base is incorporated into a case. The leg is spaced away from an upper part of an armature by a distance. This distance is determined so that an upper surface of the armature does not come into contact with the leg in a normal operation of the armature, but the upper ...