ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,526, issued on Aug. 11.
"Prefabricated rubber socket" was invented by Jong Cheon Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dong Ho Ha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a rubber socket formed by assembling a plurality of individually manufactured electrically-conductive blocks, the blocks having a plurality of elastic electrically-conductive parts and an insulating part, respectively, are individually manufactured, a lower protruding portion, having a thickness smaller than that of the support member, of each electrically-conductive part is inserted into the through hole of the suppor...