ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,830, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connector" was invented by Seiya Matsuo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connector includes a conductive plug contact, a bottom insulator, and a conductive inner contact, the inner contact including a retaining portion retained in a recessed portion of the plug contact, an elastically deformable flat plate portion facing a bottom surface of a flange of the plug contact, a plurality of top surface-side projections projecting toward the bottom surface of the flange from a top surface of the flat plate portion, and a plurality of bottom s...