ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,922, issued on May 13, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connector with a reinforcing member" was invented by Toshiro Kobuchi (Tokyo), Atsushi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Takuya Takahashi (Tokyo) and Takayuki Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing extending in a predetermined direction intersecting the fitting direction, a plurality of contacts held by the housing and arrayed along the predetermined direction, and a reinforcing member held at an end portion of the housing in the predetermined direction and made of a metal material, the reinforcing member having a first m...