US Patent Issued to J.S.T. on April 22 for "Terminal spring spacer, and a female terminal utilizing said spring spacer" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,767, issued on April 22, was assigned to J.S.T. Corp. (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

"Terminal spring spacer, and a female terminal utilizing said spring spacer" was invented by Philip Anthony Carbaugh (Singapore) and Preston Carter Costella (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal spring on a female terminal that integrates a terminal spring spacer to underlying terminal bases of said terminal spring to aid in maintaining proper contact interface gap for receiving therein a corresponding male terminal. The terminal spring spacer is integrally, contiguously, or unitarily connected to said terminal spring as a single piece. The...