ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,780, issued on March 11, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Card edge connector" was invented by Nitish Balakrishnan (Harrisburg, Pa.), Michael John Phillips (Camp Hill, Pa.), Charles Jameson Valentine (Lancaster, Pa.) and Michael Eugene Shirk (Grantville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card edge connector includes a housing configured to be mounted to a host circuit board and having a card slot at the front configured to receive a card edge of a module circuit card of the pluggable module. A contact assembly is received in a cavity of the housing having cable contacts arranged in an u...