ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,461, issued on June 10, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Test socket connector having latch with a bottom guiding portion" was invented by Ming-Yue Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes: a base and a contact module received by the base; a cover movably disposed relative to the base; and a latch mechanism including a pair of latches pivotably disposed relative to the cover and rotatably disposed relative to the base, wherein each of the pair of latches has an upper g...