ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,628, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Electrical connector and electrical connector set including said electrical connector" was invented by Daisuke Okubo (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A female electrical connector includes internal terminals, an external terminal surrounding the internal terminals, and a holding member that holds the internal terminals and the external terminal and extends in a long-side direction (X axis direction) and a short-side direction (Y axis direction). The internal terminals are arranged in the long-side direction. The external termina...