ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,950, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Tyco Electronics Technology (SIP) Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Terminal and central electrical box" was invented by Leilei Xu (Shanghai), Xianghu Shen (Suzhou, China), Debin Liang (Shanghai) and Jerry Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal used to be mounted on a circuit board. The terminal includes: a first termination part; a second termination part; and a bending part connected between the first termination part and the second termination part. The bending part is bent by a predetermined angle relative to the first termination part...