ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,942, issued on April 29, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Electric connector" was invented by Yuta Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shota Hironaka (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electric connector which includes: a housing; and a pair of reinforcement brackets reinforces both end sides of the housing in a longitudinal direction, wherein the housing has a bottom wall, a pair of short walls, a pair of long walls, an island-shaped protruding wall surrounded by the short walls and the long walls, and pairs of corner portions between a corresponding pair of short and long walls, each ...