ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,418, issued on March 18, was assigned to Yamaichi Electronics Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connector for photoelectric conversion module and connector assembly for photoelectric conversion module" was invented by Toshiyasu Ito (Tokyo) and Masaaki Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector (7) includes: a first connector part (10) having a first module side connection part connected to one end of an OSFP module in the front (F), having a first substrate side connection part connected to a substrate, and installed on the substrate; a second connector part (20) provided at a position such that the first module side connection part i...