US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 20 for "Connection device providing multidirectional contacts" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,536, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connection device providing multidirectional contacts" was invented by Hironori Tomita (Nara, Japan) and Atsushi Watanabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate located above the first substrate; a protrusion provided on an upper surface of the first substrate and protruding from the first substrate toward the second substrate; a first terminal provided on the protrusion; and a second terminal provided on a lower surface of the second substrate and dispos...