US Patent Issued to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH et al. on Oct. 14 for "Electrical connector system" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,866, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH et al. (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electrical connector system" was invented by Brian Patrick Costello (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Naoki Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly and a pluggable module. The circuit card assembly including a host circuit board, a socket connector mounted to the host circuit board, and a guide rail extending along the host circuit board. The socket connector has a socket substrate having upper contacts having mating interfaces being accessible from above the soc...