US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions, TE Connectivity Japan G.K. on Aug. 26 for "IC socket with high speed contacts" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,145, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and TE Connectivity Japan G.K. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"IC socket with high speed contacts" was invented by Shinichi Hashimoto (Kawasaki, Japan), Hiroshi Shirai (Kawasaki, Japan), Naoki Hashimoto (Kawasaki, Japan), Masayuki Aizawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Hirotate Kadobayashi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Chad William Morgan (Carneys Point, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector having a housing with a first surface and a second surface. Contact receiving openings extend from the first surface to the second surface. Contacts are posit...