ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,238, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tama, Japan).

"Electrical connector in which tip sections of contacts are in contact with protrusion sections of a housing, and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Tsubasa Okamoto (Tokyo) and Takaki Tsutsui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, which is equipped with a base section, a tongue-shaped section, multiple accommodation concave sections formed on the tongue-shaped section, and multiple protrusion sections extending from tip surfaces of the multiple accommodation sections toward a base end s...