ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,176, issued on July 8, was assigned to Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connector and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Tetsuya Komoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a punching step, a hoop material is punched in such a way that the hoop material includes a plurality of fixed parts linking in an unbroken manner in a feed direction of the hoop material and four projecting parts projecting from each of the fixed parts, and each conductive pattern extends from each fixed part to each projecting part. In an accommodating step, the hoop material is accommodated into an injection mold in such a way th...