ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,642, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and SIBAS Electronics (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).
"Sealing installation device and connector assembly" was invented by Liqiang (Gino) Yao (Shanghai), Yong (Chris) Wang (Shanghai), Aibing (Alan) Dong (Shanghai) and Renzhong (Andy) Lin (Xiamen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing installation device for hermetically mounting a housing to a panel includes an elastic sealing washer and a connection member. The elastic sealing washer is disposed between a base of the housing and the panel and seals a mating interface between the base ...