ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,328, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Force distributing spring contacts" was invented by David Robert Storch (Chicago) and Robert Hrabchak (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed to force distributing spring contacts. The disclosed spring contacts electrically connect a first component to a second component within a computing device. In implementations, the computing device includes a spring contact having a flexure coupled to a contact pin and configured to apply a force to the second component through the contact pin. The contact pin...