ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,606, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SMK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Board-to-board connector" was invented by Tomoyasu Yanase (Tokyo), Kiyoshi Asai (Tokyo) and Naoyuki Ono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a board-to-board connector including a housing having a protrusion, one or more signal terminals held on the housing such that a contact portion is exposed to the side of the protrusion, a high-frequency signal terminal arranged outside an end portion of the protrusion, and a shell surrounding an outer peripheral portion of the housing and made of a conductive metal material. In the board-to-board connector, the shell integra...