ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,649, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Dongguan) Ltd. (Dongguan, China), TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Tyco Electronics (Shangha) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Kunshan League Automechanism Co. Ltd (Kunshan, China).
"Soldering iron head and welding device" was invented by Zongjie (Jason) Tao (Shanghai), Dandan (Emily) Zhang (Shanghai), Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Hongzhou (Andy) Shen (Dongguan, China), Yun Luo (Dongguan, China) and Haidong Wu (Kunshan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soldering iron head includes a bottom surface, a first side surface, a second side sur...