ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,187, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Connector and connector assembly" was invented by Dingbing (Frank) Fan (Shanghai), Ming Shi (Shanghai), Beibei Jing (Shanghai), Xiaozhi (George) Fu (Shanghai) and Wei Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing and an elastic latch. The elastic latch includes an elastic cantilever having a free end, a fixed end connected to the housing, and a main part extending between the free end and the fixed end. The fixed end has an inclined surface extending inclined with respect to a surface of the housing. An angle betwee...