ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,361, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JOINSET Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Electrical contact terminal having elasticity and mounting structure thereof" was invented by Sun-Ki Kim (Gunpo-si, South Korea), Byung-Joo Park (Ansan-si, South Korea), Hyoung-Kyu Kim (Ansan-si, South Korea) and Jin-San Kim (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electrical contact terminal having elasticity, which is fitted into a through-hole defined on a substrate so as to electrically connect a conductive pattern defined on the substrate to an object. A core of the electrical contact terminal includes a body part having a first...