ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,362, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Connector assembly" was invented by Ryosuke Shimomura (Mie, Japan), Hiroshi Tanaka (Aichi, Japan) and Kazumasa Iijima (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to reduce noise caused by a return current. Connector assembly includes first connector and second connector to which first connector is fitted from above. First connector includes first shield and first specific terminal. Second connector includes second specific terminal. First shield has first opposed portion facing first speci...