ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,995, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Cartridge with differently spaced terminals" was invented by Shinji Hirose (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuta Fujita (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge may be inserted into a cartridge insertion slot of a game apparatus in a first direction. The cartridge may include: a terminal placement region that includes four groups of terminals configured to electrically connect to terminals in the cartridge insertion slot of the game apparatus. Each group of terminals may include a first terminal that extends longitudinally in the first direction and two seco...