ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,872, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Yazaki Corp. (Tokyo).
"Joint connector and method for manufacturing joint connector" was invented by Kozo Oishi (Makinohara, Japan), Tomoyoshi Fukaya (Makinohara, Japan) and Jun Ishikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a joint connector including: a ground terminal member made of a conductive metal, and configured by integrally forming a plate-shaped fixing portion fixed to a ground portion, the body horizontal plate portion extending from the plate-shaped fixing portion, the body rising plate portion formed by bending the body horizontal plate portion in a rising direct...