US Patent Issued to KYOCERA AVX Components on Sept. 23 for "Solderless wire-to-board single pair ethernet connection system" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,778, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYOCERA AVX Components Corp. (Fountain Inn, S.C.).

"Solderless wire-to-board single pair ethernet connection system" was invented by Jackie Mincey (Fountain Inn, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for a single pair Ethernet (SPE) wire-to-board connector. The SPE connector may include a female connector portion and a male connector portion. The female connector portion may include a first electrical contact having a first press-fit pin and a first female portion, a second electrical contact having a second press-fit pin and a second female porti...