US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on July 8 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,191, issued on July 8, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Connector" was invented by Yuma Amemori (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuuto Morita (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground terminal includes a side portion having a side surface facing in a negative direction of a Y-axis, the side surface being exposed from a resin body member, a bottom portion having a bottom surface facing in a positive direction of a Z-axis, the bottom surface being exposed from the resin body member, a side metal film covering part of the side surface, and a bottom metal film covering part of the bottom surface. A...