ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,710, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Lead frame and manufacturing method of lead frame insert molded article" was invented by Hiroyuki Fujita (Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Shinohara (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroto Yonehara (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lead frame 10 includes first and second frames 13, 14 and a fixed contact piece 15. The fixed contact piece 15 is integrally formed with the first frame via a conductive connection part 16. The first frame and the fixed contact piece 15 and the second frame have installation parts 13a, 14a, 14b, 15b to which resistance elements are able to install. T...