ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,971, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Connector including a resin body member, signal terminals and a ground terminal" was invented by Hideki Tsukamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuma Amemori (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuuto Morita (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a resin member which includes a protruding portion extending in a right and left direction when viewed in an up and down direction, a frame portion having an annular shape surrounding the protruding portion when viewed in the up and down direction, and a coupling portion between the protruding ...