ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,041, issued on May 27, was assigned to IRISO ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Connector" was invented by Masaki Hotsuki (Yokohama, Japan), Hideki Shioda (Yokohama, Japan), Daisuke Noguchi (Yokohama, Japan) and Yoshihito Okuma (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is provided that includes a terminal for which, taking a plate width direction of a first retained portion as a first plate width direction, a plate thickness direction of a second retained portion faces in a direction intersecting with a flat plane perpendicular to the first plate width direction, and that is easy to manufacture and is applicab...