US Patent Issued to Thales Avionics on Nov. 11 for "Floating pogo connectors for tablet computers of aircraft inflight entertainment systems and crew terminals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,016, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Thales Avionics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Floating pogo connectors for tablet computers of aircraft inflight entertainment systems and crew terminals" was invented by Ton Do (Corona, Calif.), Douglas Green (Anaheim, Calif.) and Deo M. Magakat (Colton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first connector, for coupling to a second connector, including a support structure, a set of spring-biased pogo pins arranged in a linear configuration and configured to carry at least one of electrical signals and power, a resilient structure extending across a face of the support structure, and a first pair ...