ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,952, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Connector, functional board, and board-level architecture" was invented by Shuang Qiu (Dongguan, China), Jun Chen (Dongguan, China) and Wang Xiong (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes an end protector and lead frames. Each lead frame includes a plurality of connection terminal groups and a shield layer. Each connection terminal group includes two connection terminals configured to transmit a signal. Each connection terminal has a first connection end that cooperates with insertion of a circuit board. The shield la...