ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,128, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo) and MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Connector with improved insulating capabilities" was invented by Satoki Masuda (Shizuoka, Japan), Hikaru Oi (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomohiro Jintoku (Tokyo), Kanato Kimura (Tokyo), Masaharu Yamagishi (Aichi, Japan) and Kazuhiro Okamura (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing having a fitting part that is inserted and fitted into a counterpart fitting part, a shield shell having a shell flange part disposed opposite a wall surface of a counterpart wall body with an interval therebetween, a first water...