ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,365, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Receptacle having a conductive seat for coupling to a circuit board" was invented by Yi-Tse Ho (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chiuming Lu (Lisle, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receptacle includes a conductive seat and a contact unit. The conductive seat has a body portion and two supporting portions, the body portion has a front end, a rear end and two side ends, the body portion is formed with a passageway which is positioned between the front end and the rear end, the two supporting portions integrally extend outwardly from the two side ends respectively, each suppor...