ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,422, issued on March 18, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Connector and connector assembly" was invented by Jianxiong Li (Shanghai), Yuchen Yang (Shanghai) and Haomai Yin (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector and a connector assembly are disclosed. The connector has a housing adapted to be inserted into a mating housing of a mating connector; an elastic latch provided on an outer wall of the housing and having a locking part for locking the mating housing and an unlocking part for unlocking the locking part; and a connection position safety mounted on the outer wall of the housing and ...