ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,509, issued on July 15, was assigned to TARNG YU ENTERPRISE Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Multi-piece connector" was invented by Ying-Chung Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Mu-Jung Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-piece connector is provided. The multi-piece connector includes a jumper conductor for electrically interconnecting parts of conductive terminals of the connector, without having to use any additional jumper, such that an electronic device having such a connector can be made more compact in size."
The patent was filed on Dec. 23, 2022, under Application No. 18/088,445.
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