ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,545, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Tyco Electronics Holdings (Bermuda) No. 7 Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda).

"Connector for a circuit board" was invented by Jiwang (Arthur) Jin (Shanghai), Wenyu (Vindy) Liu (Shanghai), Xingjie (Steven) Ge (Shanghai) and Kuo-Wei Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing having a cavity and a terminal assembly accommodated in the cavity and including a first terminal. The first terminal has a first mating portion, a first connecting portion, and a first mating beam extending from the first mating portion to the ...