ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,321, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Connector for an electronic device having a grid of connection points" was invented by Uthayarajan A/L Rasalingam (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for communicatively coupling an electronic device to a host device is provided. The connector includes a mating side and a termination side for surface mounting the connector to the electronic device. The mating side includes a first contact and a second contact. The termination side includes a printed circuit board and a grid of connection points provided on a bottom surface ...