US Patent Issued to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR, FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 18 for "Contact with two resilient arms making four abutting points with a substrate hole" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,406, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Contact with two resilient arms making four abutting points with a substrate hole" was invented by Shan-Yong Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Lun Szu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact for mounting to a substrate includes: an intermediate portion; an upper contacting portion; a lower securing portion for being fitted into a hole of the substrate, the securing portion having a body and a pair of resilient arms; and a leg extending d...