ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,092, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Connector device and load device" was invented by Takeshi Kiribuchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector device connects a load device to a power supply path in a daisy chain to allow transmission and reception of power between the load device and the power supply path. The connector device includes a housing, an upstream connector connectable to an upstream portion of the power supply path, a downstream connector connectable to a downstream portion of the power supply path, and a load connector that supplies, to a body of the load device, power ...