ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,386, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Electrical connector having metallic shell with unitary contact fingers" was invented by Ming-Ching Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a receiving slot; plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving slot; and a metallic shell being secured to the insulative housing and having a pair of contact fingers, wherein each of the pair of contact fingers i...