ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,037, issued on May 27, was assigned to Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connector, mating connector and connection device" was invented by Tadamichi Yayoshi (Tokyo) and Yosuke Honda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector comprises a housing having a bottom portion and terminals including inner terminals. The bottom portion has a projecting portion and two base portions. The projecting portion projects from the base portions in an upper-lower direction (Z-direction). Each of the base portions has at least one predetermined portion. The predetermined portion includes two passing holes and a separating porti...